A new open-source project backed by European tech companies aims to build a sovereign alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Office with web-based collaborative editing. “We believe open source is about collaboration and we look for integration and collaboration with the LibreOffice community and companies like Collabora,” the project stated.
Euro-Office is supported by Nextcloud, EuroStack, Wiki, Proton, Soverin, Abilian, and other Europe-based companies. The suite is designed to open and edit standard Microsoft Office formats like DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX, as well as OpenDocument formats used by LibreOffice. Because its interface closely resembles Microsoft Office’s tabbed toolbars, users familiar with Word, Excel, or PowerPoint should face little learning curve.
The project is a hard fork of OnlyOffice, an open-source editor whose developers are based in Russia. “Contributing is impossible or greatly discouraged” with OnlyOffice’s original developers, the project explained, adding that “a lot of users and customers require software that is not potentially influenced or controlled by the Russian government.”
Euro-Office functions only as a document editing component, designed to integrate with cloud storage services like Nextcloud and Proton Drive. While the codebase is available on GitHub, no online demo or integrated services have launched yet.
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