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Posted by campuscodi 6 hours ago

Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform(office.eu)
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sgt 6 hours ago|
> Office EU is a complete cloud-based office suite

Issue is.. if you are a traditional MS Office "poweruser", the last thing you want to do is spend your days in a web browser. These apps should also be available as native apps, similar to MS Word, Excel, Pages, Keynote, etc.

flumpcakes 6 hours ago||
The vast majority of office use at my work is in the browsers because the files are stored in Sharepoint. It seems to work well enough for basic needs (no macros and fairly simple formulas in excel etc.)

I have a non-technical friend in finance who uses the Desktop versions of Excel for most of their work and they say it crashes nearly every day losing work.

Kwpolska 5 hours ago|||
Every time SharePoint/Teams decides to open a document in the browser, I cry a little. Misalignments in Word, broken basic keyboard movements in Excel, terrible performance across the board.
sgt 5 hours ago|||
Excel is pretty stable.. I guess it could be those specific sheets doing something odd.
flumpcakes 5 hours ago||
I think it's a factor of things, but Excel isn't as stable as it once was. My friends spreadsheets include:

- Row count ~100k - Column count ~1k - The usual vlookup, etc. formulae. - Oracle extensions that sync tables to databases in the cloud.

herbst 6 hours ago||
This is probably not the target audience. Most people just need to write occasional letters and sign some files.
EdNutting 6 hours ago||
Am I being dumb: they say it's "open-source software" but I can't actually find a link (or links) to the software / source anywhere on the office.eu website??
janeway 6 hours ago||
Yes, I searched for the same. No evidence this has anything to do with the European Union. More like a vibe-coded landing page with user signup form.

Edit: I am certain this is one or two people vibe coding then will pitch to VCs when the waitlist has 1000 people.

Listing major company logos in their banner: “The organizations listed here use similar technology (Nextcloud) as part of their operations. Their inclusion is for illustrative purposes only.”

jadamson 6 hours ago||
I like how some of the logos are inexplicably upside down:

https://office.eu/images/social-proof/tu-berlin.svg https://office.eu/images/social-proof/itzbund.svg

EdNutting 6 hours ago|||
Oh, there's some reference to NextCloud - so is this just a white-labeled NextCloud? Or a straight-up AI generated rip-off / resell?
EdNutting 6 hours ago||
>"Office EU is a European productivity suite for files, email, calendars, documents and calls, built on Nextcloud Hub. It brings Files, Talk, Groupware and Office together in one platform."

https://office.eu/faq

Of which, Files, Talk, Office and Groupware are all just NextCloud services where they've swapped "Nextcloud" for "EU" in the name.

>"Office.EU is a service offered and operated by EUfforic Europe BV, registered with the Dutch chamber of commerce under registration number 98746243 and having its address at Dr. Kuyperstraat 10-A at (2514 BB) The Hague, the Netherlands."

I wouldn't personally trust a company that appears to be claiming another company's services as some revolutionary new thing, when it's just reselling them. And it was registered in November 2025 with no other information available - why would anyone gamble all their company data on a company that has appeared as quickly as it might disappear? Who are the owners/founders even?

Anyway, this was a waste of time.

oever 5 hours ago||
Nextcloud does not provide hosting, only 3rd level support. So any commercial hosting of Nextcloud will be done by other companies. There are many companies to choose from.

https://nextcloud.com/partners/

Personally, I would only choose companies that are listed as a partner because then I can see what level of support they buy from Nextcloud.

my-next-account 6 hours ago||
It says that it's based on Nextcloud, which is AGPL, so they better F:ing cough up the source code :-)
pentagrama 5 hours ago||
About pricing [1]:

> What are the pricing plans?

> Office EU will offer simple plans for individuals and teams. Pricing will be competitive and designed to be easy to understand. We will publish full plan details closer to launch.

> Will there be a free plan?

> A free plan is planned after launch. It will be a good way to try Office EU before committing. Exact limits and features will be shared when it is ready.

[1] https://office.eu/faq

rrr_oh_man 6 hours ago||
Cheap purchased PR slop with fake articles and no product.

e.g.:

- https://hostingdiscussion.com/news/european-cloud-workspace-...

- https://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/empresas/amp/plataforma-offi...

And it seems to be repackaged Collabora (~LibreOffice):

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/05/office_eu_suite/

gzread 6 hours ago||
I need to learn this skill of producing nothing and pretending I have. It seems to be very rewarding, financially speaking.
nradov 6 hours ago|||
In general getting EU grants is very lucrative. It takes some relationships and writing skill but in the end you never have to deliver any results (beyond maybe a report that no one ever reads)
joe_mamba 6 hours ago||||
You need to know the right people in Brussels/Washington, to milk and scam the taxpayer in your favor.
MattGaiser 6 hours ago||||
Really, just lack shame and sell something you do not have and bet that you can get it before anyone really presses too hard. It's an incredible thing to see.
canyp 6 hours ago|||
Should have gotten an MBA instead of a BS.
phatskat 4 hours ago||
But I thought getting an MBA _was_ BS!
kzrdude 6 hours ago|||
They list a bunch of companies under the heading "All these companies work with the same technology" on their landing page. I think it's quite scummy, and very non-impressive when you see it.
storus 6 hours ago||
LibreOffice came from OpenOffice which was StarOffice which was developed in Germany.
bcye 6 hours ago||
Weird product page, why would you put the number of member states and residents Europe has in your „feature“ section?
davidpaulyoung 6 hours ago||
You can have hosted Nextcloud on Hetzner, with Headscale, email server, Vaultwarden, and Wordpress on European infrastructure (Hetzner) individually installed just for you from Federated Computer today for $19/month unlimited user accounts. I use it every day. Human support, too...!
gzread 5 hours ago|
Sure you can, you can also pirate Microsoft Office (the versions prior to the shittening). But companies don't want that, they just want to pay a few bucks per user per month to make it someone else's problem. Microsoft offers this service. Google offers this service. FOSS does not.

That's also why always-connected SaaS is winning - it makes more things the vendor's problem instead of the customer's problem. Provided that you maintain a good relationship with your vendor. A metal machining company doesn't want to hire an employee to manage a bespoke computer system, or even to replace computer parts or install Ethernet cabling in the building. They might do it, if it's the only good option, but they prefer it to just work without effort, even for more money.

aprilnya 4 hours ago||
Umm.. this feels like a better suited comment for another part of this thread. Federated Computer appears to offer the exact same service as OfficeEU - a SaaS/managed Nextcloud
Void_ 6 hours ago||
Are we gonna talk about that cookie banner? https://cleanshot.com/share/cDQ5RMkP
SlackingOff123 5 hours ago||
Looks like a reasonable cookie banner to me: Deny (all), Custom selection and Accept all.

It even works perfectly with Consent-O-Matic extension.

Xylakant 5 hours ago||
It's a perfectly not reasonable cookie banner. If you click on Details, you can see that they're not using marketing, statistics, or any other kind of cookies apart from the technically necessary. Which is great, but also means that they don't even need a banner. It could just go away.
gardenhedge 4 hours ago||
what about it?
crudbug 5 hours ago||
Some commercial alternatives to MS Office:

https://www.wordperfect.com/en/

https://www.softmaker.com/en/

https://www.infomaniak.com/en/ksuite

https://www.group-office.com/

https://www.icewarp.com/

https://www.bitrix24.com/

https://fengoffice.com/

https://www.hancomdocs.com/en/

https://www.larksuite.com/en_sg/

https://www.polarisoffice.com/en/

amelius 2 hours ago||
Trademark lawyers are raising their eyebrows.
duxup 5 hours ago|
I'm inclined to agree that this should have had a different name, gonna be different come up with a good name.

As for open source as they claim ... can't find the code or a link to it on their site.

So far this smells like a lot of intent but I'm not sure what this is.

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