The aim of Euro-Office is more than just to build another productivity suite. It is positioned as a modern, open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, one that truly enables everyone – private people and businesses – to use, manage, and share files and work collaboratively on them; with full freedom from Big Tech dependencies, tracking, or data risks.

Euro-Office is designed for small businesses, large organizations, the public sector, and privacy-conscious users across Europe and beyond. With its first stable version launching next week, the addition of Tuta just ahead of release underlines what the project is really about: building a sovereign, transparent, and collaborative digital ecosystem that every organization fighting for a private and sovereign web can join and help bring to life.

Matthias Pfau, co-founder and CEO of Tuta says:

We’ve joined Euro-Office because we see great potential for this project to become a truly sovereign alternative with great usability and data protection. It is built by European engineers, people and companies that you can trust, and it is fully open source. This is exactly what we need here at Tuta to compliment our encrypted offerings of Tuta Mail, Tuta Calendar, and Tuta Drive.”

Open source foundation

Euro-Office is built on a fork of OnlyOffice, which was chosen for its modern architecture and web-first approach. According to its core developers, forking Euro-Office from OnlyOffice enables a more fluid, browser-native experience compared to older approaches like traditional desktop suites. While projects such as Collabora Online and LibreOffice remain important parts of the deGoogled ecosystem, Euro-Office will be an important step toward a more tightly integrated and cloud-native office environment for digital sovereignty.

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Great timing

We at Tuta are excited to join Euro-Office just days before the first release as this carries a deeper symbolism. It shows that all Euro-Office partners, and pre-dominantly Nextcloud and Ionos, are working on bringing this project to life – and we are excited to now be part of this journey. Tuta’s entry shows confidence in both the technical direction and the governance model behind Euro-Office.

Frank Karlitschek, founder and CEO of Nextcloud, says:

We are moving forward even faster than we thought. One reason is that the project gained momentum and several additional organisation joined our initial group.”

Achim Weiss, Ionos CEO, adds to this:

With the geo-political developments we have seen in the last year, there is a clear need for a reliable, fully Microsoft-compatible and easy to use sovereign office solution in Europe. Our joint initiative delivers a suite with an extremely familiar interface and capable of working with documents, presentations, and spreadsheets.”

European trend

Euro-Office and its partners also demonstrate a trend that is happening all over Europe right now: companies and organizations work together to build sovereign alternatives to Big Tech, rather than hindering each other and each other’s product.

At Tuta we know that different solutions can co-exist. We enjoy working together on a shared vision, and have done so often in the past, for instance with open letters against Chat Control. This is important to us – even if being partial competitors. It is great to give private users and businesses a choice – a choice that is deeply needed, after having given into the lock-in effect of Microsoft and Google for more than two decades now.

It is time that we diversify the tech landscape, and build strong European competitors to Big Tech. By working together, we can achieve this much faster. At Tuta, we are happy to join Euro-Office and to work and collaborate with others because together we can build a better web!