LibreOffice just had its biggest donation day ever… thanks to the Microsoft outage.

The Document Foundation says it received “over 1,000 donations in a single day, setting a new record.”

Their explanation: “many people are reconsidering their reliance on a single cloud service provider for their documents.”
The attached image shows their official announcement stressing LibreOffice’s local file storage and independence from service providers.

LibreOffice just had its biggest donation day ever thanks to the Microsoft outage.

The Document Foundation reported over 1,000 donations in a single day, a new high, linking the surge to users reconsidering dependence on one cloud provider for documents.https://t.co/kjY4UCkB5C pic.twitter.com/7OS3k6Fq4o

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Yesterday, The Document Foundation received over 1,000 donations in a single day, setting a new record. While we take no pleasure in the operational problems faced by other organisations, the timing suggests that many people are reconsidering their reliance on a single cloud service provider for their documents. With LibreOffice, your documents are stored locally, and ODF files belong to their authors and not to a service provider.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/11/14/1000-donations-and-counting/

In 2007 I fully stopped dual booting Win/Linux and wiped my windows partitions.
The tipping point was OpenOffice (LibreOffice) because MS Office document formats where baked into LibreOffice and I did not need Office 2003 with yet again a massive service pack or to pay for it.

h/t Google_It