Denmark’s Ministry of Digitalization has ended a pilot exploring an open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, which the ministry uses extensively. The trial began in summer 2025, when nearly 40 ministry employees started testing Collabora, an office suite supplied by Danish company cBrain. The initiative had been presented as a significant effort to assess whether open-source software could replace Microsoft’s widely used package in government work.
The pilot’s termination was not publicly announced, despite the project’s earlier prominence. The information provided confirms that the ministry has abandoned the Collabora trial, but gives no explanation for the decision, assessment of the software, or account of what the employees found during testing. It also does not say whether the ministry considered other open-source options or plans to pursue a replacement project. The key development is therefore the quiet reversal: a small-scale test intended to examine an alternative to Office has ended, leaving Microsoft’s suite in place at the ministry.
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