Monthly Archive:: July 2025

The Role of XML in Interoperability

When different systems, applications or organisations need to communicate with each other and actually understand what is being said, interoperability is key. It enables a hospital’s software to communicate with an insurance company, for example, or one

Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice

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Following the example of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which is moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice, the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is doing the same.

Caroline Stage Olsen, the country’s Digitalisation Minister, plans to move

XML: a technology at the heart of our daily lives

In my last article, I mentioned XML several times, perhaps assuming that all users had a basic understanding of it. Rereading it, I realised that an introduction to XML was needed for non-technical users, those who use

LibreOffice project and community recap: June 2025

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Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

  • We started the month with Episode 3 of the LibreOffice Podcast – this time looking at Quality Assurance (QA) in Free

📣 The New LibreOffice 25.2 User Guides Are Here!

The LibreOffice community has great news: the Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, and Math User Guides are now available for version 25.2! 🎉

Yes, you read that right! With every new LibreOffice release, our Documentation Team works hard to keep up — and this time, we’ve shortened