The Tale of Two Cities

[Lodahl]

By Oliver Diedrich 03 December 2012, 10:32

In Freiburg, by contrast, it appears that problems were simply not resolved. Staff were expected to muddle through. In 2012, most desktops were still running the ancient Microsoft Office 2000 in parallel to the almost equally outdated OpenOffice 3.2.1 – some tasks were only able to be performed in Microsoft Office, some required OpenOffice. It is not really surprising that this did little to encourage acceptance of OpenOffice and that it generated a great deal of extra work for the IT department. Against this backdrop, the council's decision to put the OpenOffice experiment out of its misery and allow its staff to get back to working properly is understandable.

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