Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9

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['Countries outside of the US are growing tired of paying for software-as-a-service (SaaS) that they see as untrustworthy and dominated by American companies. As a result, many countries and companies, especially in Europe, are investing in digital sovereignty initiatives. The latest SaaS to address this need is Euro-Office, an open-source office suite designed to help public authorities, education systems, and regulated industries move away from US-based productivity clouds while retaining a familiar, Microsoft Office-style workflow for end users.', "Euro-Office's 1.0 release, available June 9 for anyone to download from the project's public GitHub repositories, will come with ready-to-use web editors for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations that support real-time collaboration.

The suite is being developed by a range of European cloud and collaboration vendors, including Ionos, Nextcloud, EuroStack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian, BTactic, Open-Xchange, and Office.eu.", "The developers argue that this combination of European corporate control and open licensing addresses sovereignty and transparency concerns in a way that neither purely proprietary US suites nor small, isolated open-source projects can. 'With the geo-political developments we have seen in the last year, there is a clear need for a reliable, fully Microsoft-compatible and easy to use sovereign office solution in Europe,' said Achim Weiss, Ionos CEO. 'Our joint initiative delivers a suite with an extremely familiar interface and capable of working with documents, presentations, and spreadsheets.'", "Euro-Office ships as an integrated component inside existing European collaboration ecosystems rather than as a standalone download that CIOs must wire up from scratch.

At launch, the suite will be available as an office integration in products from participating companies, including the latest Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring release, where it can serve as the in-browser editor for shared documents. Ionos' managed Nextcloud customers will be able to install Euro-Office shortly after June 9, and Ionos plans to roll it into its broader Nextcloud Workspace offering later this summer.", "According to Frank Karlitschek, Nextcloud CEO, 'Europe has had the technical building blocks for years. What was missing until now was an initiative to bring them together into a meaningful, comprehensive solution.' He continued, 'With Euro-Office, we're not starting from scratch; instead, we're taking responsibility for a vital piece of digital infrastructure.

This finally gives organizations tools they can trust: transparent, durable, and managed in Europe.' Although Euro-Office's contributors and corporate backers are firmly Europe-based, the code is open to contributions worldwide and can be deployed globally.", 'The program itself is a web-based, open-source editor for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDFs. It comes with real-time collaboration and strong support for both Microsoft Office and OpenDocument formats. Specifically, it can create, open, and edit DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, and other Microsoft Office formats, as well as the OpenDocument formats ODT, ODS, and ODP.