Several European governments and organizations have decided to drop Microsoft products like Office or Windows in favor of open-source equivalents. Here's why.

Microsoft Sovereign Cloud, the umbrella under which all the new solutions fall, gives organizations in Europe more control ...

Microsoft Office is used in offices at the same time in schools and also for personal use worldwide. But now, some countries ...

German state of Schleswig-Holstein also turns its back on Microsoft as Europeans fear being ‘blackmailed’ by Big Tech ...

Plans to go open-source were drawn up by Schleswig-Holstein as far back as 2017. In 2021, the state found another incentive ...

German state Schleswig-Holstein wants to remove all traces of Microsoft, including Windows Transition started in 2023, and should be complete by the end of 2025 Digitalization minister says, "We're ...

The state will turn to open-source software to “take back control” over data storage and ensure “digital sovereignty”, ...

Microsoft Office is being banned from government systems in some European countries, including Germany, to maintain data ...

The main reason behind this is that the German government wants to keep its data safe and stored inside the country.

The radical change is being hailed as a major step toward "digital sovereignty" and a signal of growing European resistance ...

Germany announced an ambitious plan to migrate approximately 30,000 computers across various public institutions from ...

Denmark plans to replace Microsoft 365 and Windows with Linux and LibreOffice, following Germany’s lead in shifting to open-source software.