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Denmark’s pilot replacing Microsoft Office with the open-source Collabora suite reportedly ended less than six months after it began. The trial involved 38 ministry employees, and some complained about problems with formatting, blank pages and tracked changes.

Tom’s Hardware says the account comes from Danish publication Computerworld, in machine translation. The report says the experiment had apparently ended by February 2026, but a Copenhagen Business School professor criticised the ministry for not properly evaluating it or sharing lessons. For public bodies weighing a move away from familiar software, the practical point is that testing matters only if someone records what went wrong and why.

Discuss: Should governments publish evaluations of failed software pilots, even when the results make the switch look less appealing?

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