Denmark Abandons Pilot to Replace Microsoft Office With Collabora

Denmark's Ministry of Digitization reportedly ended a pilot that had 38 employees switch from Word, PowerPoint and Excel to the open-source Collabora suite less than six months after it began. Staff cited issues with styles, paragraph formatting, blank pages and change tracking, and the project was never properly evaluated.

• The pilot launched in 2025 with 38 ministry employees
• It ended before Denmark called early elections in February 2026
• Staff reported problems with styles, paragraph formatting and change tracking
• Professor Mikkel Flyverbom urged the ministry to publish the pilot's findings