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Microsoft alternative: Nextcloud and Ionos develop open-source ‘Euro-Office’ (www.heise.de)
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Nextcloud, Ionos and other partners are developing an open-source office suite under the project name „Euro-Office“ as an alternative to the market-dominant Microsoft Office.

The two partners are not starting from scratch, but have forked the components of OnlyOffice available as open-source code and want to build on them. In the summer, the software is then intended to replace the previous office component Collabora in Nextcloud and the Ionos Nextcloud Workspace. A ‘technical preview’ is already available on GitHub.

While this is a good news, I think they should move from github, you know microslop copilot..

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[–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You won't find any applicants for a secretary, HR, or accounting position if it requires knowledge of Python.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    No, but for these OnlyOffice is a viable alternative. @surgarsweat was referring to way advanced features, not something secretaries or HR or accounting will need. I have use OnlyOffice for 6 years now, and have yet to find an Excel need it could not fulfill.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I've tried OnlyOffice for personal use and it's just okay. There are some things that I consider basic that I tried to do and either they didn't work or it got super slow/laggy/crashed.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Perhaps you underestimate people.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    I've done IT consulting work for a company that had switched to an open source software stack and were forced to go back to MS because they literally couldn't fill necessary positions and it was threatening to kill the business.
    And this was at a time where there was a surplus of applicants for every position. They just all noped out when they were told they'd have to learn to use different software.

    I've worked for dozens of companies as MSP and now I'm leading the in-house IT of a company with 300 employees. The picture is the same everywhere: Most office workers have simply memorized the exact steps needed for their role. Take away the tools they're used to and their productivity drops to zero, while IT support workload goes through the roof.

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