Digital sovereignty is of vital importance for data freedom. If governments and organisations use proprietary or pseudo-standard formats, they limit the tools that citizens can use to access data. So we’re happy to see that the IT Planning Council in Germany is committing to move to the Open Document Format – a fully standardised format […]
I don’t think this decision was made because of Trump’s policies.
There were already decisions like this before Trump was in office.
Unfortunately, nothing has really been effective enough to force Microsoft out of public administration.
Weird, how they suddenly can do when it finally matters. National security more important than coffers of money, huh?
I mean, you should be happy about that. If it was the other way around then your government would sell your country out from under you. See: America.
I don’t think this decision was made because of Trump’s policies. There were already decisions like this before Trump was in office. Unfortunately, nothing has really been effective enough to force Microsoft out of public administration.