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Italian Military To Save Up To 29 Million Euro By Migrating To LibreOffice (softpedia.com)
Reader prisoninmate writes: Following on last year's bold announcement that they will attempt to migrate from proprietary Microsoft Office products to an open-source alternative like LibreOffice, Italy's Ministry of Defense now expects to save up to 29 million Euro with this move. We said it before, and we'll say it again, this is the smartest choice a government institution can do. And to back up this statement, the Italian Ministry of Defense announced that they expect to save between 26 and 29 million Euro over the next few years by migrating to the LibreOffice open-source software for productivity and adopting the Open Document Format (ODF).
To be fair, coffee-making is a serious business in Italy.
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You are also forgetting the Microsoft is pushing office 2016 into the cloud. Governments can't store their work on microsofts servers.
Yes, they can. There is no technical reason they can't. They just need to adjust their laws and policies to match Microsoft's offerings and policies.
Email calendar office 365 Windows 10 all tied to a single user login. All tied to the cloud. Governments militaries, even most business can't have any of their data exposed to the cloud that way.
You keep making this mistake. Yes, they can. They absolutely can. If they want to use Microsoft software, then they better get used to working this way.
I for one hope Microsoft takes a very hard stance here and makes it impossible for anyone (including enterprises and governments) to not have a network connection when using Microsoft software. That includes computers handling classified information. These computers need to have internet connections so that they can "phone home" to Microsoft. Who do these upstart customers think they are, trying to tell Microsoft how to architect their software?