The reported milestone
On 4 December 2025, Schleswig-Holstein’s government reported that almost 80% of workstations outside the tax administration were using LibreOffice.Read more
This is a government-reported adoption milestone, not an independent audit or evidence that every Microsoft-dependent workload had been replaced.
IGEARS analysis: treat exceptions as a workstream
For a business, an adoption percentage is less useful than knowing which critical workflows remain blocked.Read more
A small number of spreadsheets or specialist integrations can carry more operational risk than thousands of ordinary documents. Keep an exception register with an owner, reason and review date.
Apply the idea to a smaller organisation
An office migration can be scoped around teams and document families.
Supporting detail
- Start with a department that uses repeatable templates.
- Test the real fonts, printers, shared storage and accessibility requirements.
- Give users a support route and a way to report document defects.
- Measure accepted workflows and unresolved blockers as well as installation counts.
Evidence to collect before expanding
Keep before-and-after output, issue records, training feedback and a tested rollback path.Read more
Use that evidence to decide the next phase rather than importing another organisation’s claimed savings. This is a reported third-party case, not an IGEARS customer project. IGEARS can help design a comparable pilot for your own environment.
Sources and verification
Policies and features can change. Verify the current terms and your installed edition before implementation.