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Winners & losers: When Denmark's digitalization minister announced last summer that her own staff would start ditching Microsoft Office, the news traveled far beyond Danish media. Her ministry was supposed to go first and show other public bodies that leaving American software behind was doable. That experiment has now quietly ended. Nobody at the ministry uses the replacement today, and there are no plans to bring it back.

Early reports had the whole ministry ditching Microsoft Office by the end of 2025, but what launched on June 19 was a lot more modest – a pilot with 38 volunteers from the department. Those testers swapped Word for Collabora, an open-source office suite built on LibreOffice . Danish software firm cBrain plugged it into F2, its case-handling system that ministry staff already use to write and file documents.…