Dear Informatics,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I wish to make a request for information. I want to know what share different operating systems have on corporate devices of the European Commission. So, for instance, how many laptops and desktop devices run on Windows, Linux, etc. I was hoping for the same figures in regard to phones and tablets.
Yours faithfully,
Alexander Fanta
Follow the Money
Rue Auguste Orts 2
1000 Brussels
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 28/07/2025 and registered on 28/07/2025 under the case number
2025/3863.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 19/08/2025. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.
To find more information on how we process your personal data, please see
[1]the privacy statement.
Yours faithfully,
Directorate-General for Digital Services - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Dear Mr Fanta,
We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 28 July 2025 under case number EASE 2025/3863.
We are currently working on your request. However, we have not yet been
able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full analysis of
your request. We will not be able to send you the reply within the
prescribed time limit expiring on 19 August 2025.
Therefore, in line with Article 7(3) of [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001,
we need to extend this time limit by 15 additional working days. The new
time limit expires on 9 September 2025.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
DIGIT Access to documents team
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Dear Mr Fanta,
We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 28 July 2025 under case number EASE 2025/3863.
Your request is formulated as a request for information rather than as a
request for documents and cannot be handled under [1]Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001 which applies only to existing documents. Therefore, we have
closed this case.
The requested information is provided herewith under the [2]Code of Good
Administrative Behaviour[3].
The Commission’s Digital WorkPlace environment is a highly standardized
working environment. We use the technologies that are best suited for our
corporate use cases. This means that more than 95% of our managed
computers are laptops, and only a small minority are desktop devices. We
run Windows, Linux and Mac OS on those devices, depending on the use case.
Roughly 85% of the workplace devices run Windows, about 15% run Linux, and
a small minority run Mac OS. For mobile devices (phones, tablets), we
mostly use iPhones and iPads, with android devices representing a small
percentage of overall devices.
Kind regards,
DIGIT Access to documents team
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3. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/...