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# Austria's armed forces complete switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-09-16-austria-bundesheer-libreoffice-migration/
- Published: 2025-09-16T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-15T04:00:45.000Z
- Description: Austria's Bundesheer finished migrating around 16,000 workstations from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, uninstalling Office 2016 entirely. The armed forces cited digital sovereignty, not licence cost, as the reason.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, Policy and law, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [ORF report, 16 September 2025](https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20250916/807304/Freie-Software-fuer-das-Bundesheer?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** This does not establish that the Bundesheer has also left Microsoft's cloud or operating system layer.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-14\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)