term for software that support multiple people working on it at the same time, a la google docs or figma

Sounds good to me! I hope they support the open document formats better than onlyoffice currently does. Also euro-office isn’t a particularly good name, although it has the advantage of being explicit about where it’s based.

Nor does the fact that they went back on the AI kill switch and sent my information that should’ve been private to someone else’s computer a good thing.

when did they do that?

This is only a part of france’s “LaSuite” (very original name guys), that seemingly will replace every equivalent american service.

https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/

They generally work pretty well (demo on the site) and are a mix of homegrown solutions and rebrands of existing projects like matrix. All of them are open source.

Using an imac in the cover image for this specific article is quite ironic.