@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social
2026-02-21 16:11 UTC
The suspension of email service by Microsoft for an official of the International Criminal Court has been cited as one of the factors causing booming interest & investment in #DigitalSovereignty in Europe. It was a wake up call for European governments that U.S. tech firms would follow U.S. influence over EU rights. The ICC announced in late 2025 that they will move away from #Microsoft services.
#USA_TechHegemony
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/microsoft_asks_uk_parliament_to_correct_record/
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@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social 2026-02-21 16:21
Remember the German state of Schleswig-Holstein from an earlier post in this thread? In June of 2025 an article reported they stopped using Microsoft Office. That actually started in 2024, when it swapped out Office for free, open-source alternative LibreOffice. Schleswig-Holstein’s open-source initiative began in 2020 as an effort to save licensing costs. “What began as a technical project is now a political project,” said the state’s CIO, Sven Thomsen. #FOSS https://www.raconteur.net/technology/schleswig-holstein-open-source