We'll have to see how long it takes, as it did with LiMux (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux) when Microsoft Germany headquarters magically moved to Munich and everything got back to running on Windows again.
> The city reported that due to the project, it had gained freedom in software decisions, increased security and saved €11.7 million (US$16 million).
That's kind of nice. An org that I worked for gave everyone LibreOffice installs by default and if you needed any of MS offerings you could just ask for a license for those. Most people were just fine with LibreOffice. Depends on what you're doing with said office suite, though.
I read that same thing every 2-3 years “German state goes Linux/libre office”.
Then it turns out that it is not really true. Some parts yes then some other parts are already on it and some parts move back.
I do understand there might be different parts of rather big country doing different stuicf
The small physical distance just means that this would be quite cheap for Microsoft to implement, compared to trying to pull the same stunt with another city.