Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.

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      5 days ago

      found this update from 1 month ago:

      https://euro-stack.com/blog/2025/3/schleswig-holstein-open-source-digital-sovereignty

      what the actual amount of progress is seems to be buried under bureaucracy-speak but I got 3 useful sentences out of it so far:

      Configuration via group policies

      MS Office can remain installed in parallel, until October 2025

      Goals for october 2025: LibreOffice should be the sole standard office software on around 70% of the state administration’s IT workstations

      so to me it seems they’re currently slowly doing a MS office -> LibreOffice transfer, but they’re still all using windows (as the use of “group policy” implies)