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Austria's armed forces complete switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice

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.

Reported Editor-read ORF report, 16 September 2025

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.

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

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