German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by zo1 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @08:36AM (#39929625)

I live in a badly-maintained, "3rd world" country, and since we got office 365 maybe a half decade ago (probably more) it's been down once, for one afternoon. And that was due to what looks like an undersea cable sabotage.

What kind of internet/IT department do you have where you have any sort of regular office outage?

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Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by dubcanada on Thursday April 04, 2024 @08:41AM (#39929678)

https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status just scrolling through there is several outages, Teams, performance issues, etc. However it does tend to be only a specific area/country or a set of products rather then all of Office 365.

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Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by ToucanLoucan on Thursday April 04, 2024 @08:44AM (#39929714)

Recently we had a Teams outage at work that wasn't AWFULLY disruptive, but the only reason that is is that we don't depend on 365 cloud services to get anything done. We use Slack for chat features and more casual calling services (non-meeting) though of course Teams managed to be down on a meeting-heavy day, and we ended up organizing Slack huddles to get around it.

The only real cloud service we use is OneDrive and the CEO is pushing us to get away from it because it has all kinds of strange problems with file permissions and we constantly have to call IT to unlock files.

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Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by rawgabbit on Thursday April 04, 2024 @09:21AM (#39930048)

What alternative tool does your CEO prefer?

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