Kevin Dominik Korte
An interesting perspective on France's rollout of @nextcloud It certainly matches my experience that user habits are often one of the biggest hurdles to change.
#IT #users #digitalsovereignty
https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/06/16/frances-digital-sovereignty-push-is-struggling-to-escape-the-microsoft-gravity-well/5255380
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well

Nextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another

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Jun 17 at 2:48amWeb
Show threadMathew Storm4d ago

@kdkorte @nextcloud

Nice to see them trying and documenting the hurdles.

The classic saying: Nothing worth doing is ever easy.

Show threadKevin Dominik Korte4d ago

@smattymatty @nextcloud It's especially important to understand how many of the problems are human in nature.

I think we focus far too much on the technical aspects and too little on change as a resistance factor.

Show threadMarco Bresciani3d ago

@kdkorte
I'd be a bit more brutal in migrating.
I did it for my team, once.
Half of the team will see their MS Office removed for good, using (at the time) StarOffice.
In case of misalignments, the people with MS Office can install StarOffice to see the documents properly.
This for a month.
Then full switch.

If we continue to lean of people's inertia, nothing will ever change.🙁
@smattymatty @nextcloud

Show threadMarco Bresciani3d ago

@kdkorte
Also, probably most people can't even use MS Office properly and Markdown would've been enough... 😅

And please, no, Excel cells shall have no formatting!
@smattymatty @nextcloud

Show threadKevin Dominik Korte2d ago

@AAMfP @smattymatty @nextcloud Nothing is more permanent than a temporary migration.

As for office moves, my experience is that most people are afraid of loosing functions they have never used.

Show threadMarco Bresciani2d ago
@kdkorte
Indeed true!
@smattymatty @nextcloud