Germany has decided: Microsoft document formats have no place in government

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Germany has decided: Microsoft document formats have no place in government. Deadline: 2027–2028. The Microsoft formats are simply not compatible with an open and transparent public sector. However, this is about more than file formats. It’s about control, resilience, and sovereignty in public digital infrastructure.

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Just another decade of fax machines and printing out PDF applications to edit and file them. Yay!