Kudos to Germany for pulling it off. Was also happy to see them mention

Last year [...] the government began rolling out LibreOffice as the default office suite to replace Microsoft Office.

Unfortunately, it is only 1 out of 16 states.

Future headline:

Microsoft's Windows update will eliminate "side loading" unauthorized programs.

Great. People need to detach from the American mindset.

This isn’t really newsworthy anymore - European governments are all moving towards digital sovereignty for stuff like this, which makes sense. Microsoft will most likely start offering “host your own” cloud versions of these products soon to try and stop/slow the exodus, as controlling your own data becomes more and more important to governments and companies.

Lol, I don't know of that's intentional shade but that photo is of my hometown (Lübeck), which is in the state (SH) but not the capital. So they didn't find a photo from capital (Kiel) they that was aesthetically pleasing enough to accompany the article?