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The first stable version of the open-source web office suite Euro-Office has been released. This was announced by the leading project partners Nextcloud and Ionos. Euro-Office aims to enable companies, authorities, and other organizations to jointly create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and to become independent of proprietary offerings such as Microsoft Office or Google Docs.

“Our top priority was to provide a version that users can actually work with. Initially, we cleaned up the code, implemented some security updates, and integrated Euro Office into existing solutions,” summarizes Nextcloud CEO Frank Karlitschek on the project status. Local desktop and mobile applications are not yet available; they are the next step on the list. Full support for open standards like ODF is also a priority. “This will be at the very top of the agenda for the next version,” says Karlitschek.

Euro-Office is initially intended to be integrated primarily as an office module in the collaboration tools of the partners. In addition to Ionos and Nextcloud, Eurostack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian, BTactic, Open-Xchange, and Office.eu are also on board as project partners. Ionos and Nextcloud are building a development team for Euro-Office, according to their own statements, and the first positions have already been filled.

Guess which one is more useful

OOXML is open and standardized by ECMA International and ISO. Refuted.

odf is also recognized by ISO, so what’s the point?

if they keep OOXML as the standard, it still maintains MS in a strength position by letting them keep control of the format, that they could update and make Euro Office incompatible with the new standard

So, LibreOffice supports both ODF and OOXML (both strict and transitional specs). I imagine the EuroOffice has better support for OOXML, but unless EuroOffice fails to support ODF, there is a path to eventually having all Euro files be ODF. Its just a matter of planning.

“Europe’s first open-source office suite.” That’s how Euro-Office markets itself.

LibreOffice isn’t buying it.

The Document Foundation, the people behind LibreOffice, publicly called out Euro-Office for pushing Microsoft’s OOXML format while waving the open-source flag.

Their words: Euro-Office is acting as a “de facto ally” of Microsoft.

The core issue is that OOXML, Microsoft’s document format, has a history of undermining true open standards. An office suite that makes OOXML its priority isn’t really fighting for open source. It’s reinforcing the very ecosystem it claims to stand against. That’s what LibreOffice thinks.

LibreOffice has spent years building a genuinely open alternative. Watching a newcomer claim that title while playing by Microsoft’s rules is, apparently, too much to ignore for them.

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