Many european gov'ts have been ditching MS Office for LibreOffice, and in some r...

danieldk · on July 29, 2019

the army aims to replace all MS Office installations by the end of the year.

Seeing is believing. This has often been used as a strategy to get license discounts from Microsoft.

gmueckl · on July 29, 2019

License discounts have been Microsofts strategy to persuade organizations to stay.

vanderZwan · on July 29, 2019

I wonder how much these development may have motivated the recent change in attitude towards open source and Linux at Microsoft. I mean even if it had they'd never publicly acknowledge that, since it would be seen as a sign of weakness (and give more free press to the competition in a way)

gnode · on July 29, 2019

I think the main reason Microsoft has become more Linux friendly is that it is crucial to the success of Azure, which has become a major part of Microsoft's business.