Microsoft is responding to mounting “geopolitical and trade volatility” between the US administration and governments in Europe by pledging privacy safeguards for customers worried about using American hyperscalers, and vowing to fight the US government in court to protect Euro customers’ data if needed.
Under Trump 2.0, some Europeans fear that storing their data in the bit barns of Microsoft, Google and AWS is no longer safe, a concern voiced to The Register in late February by Bert Hubert, a part time technical advisor to the Dutch Electoral Council.
Microsoft is (…) vowing to fight the US government in court to protect Euro customers’ data if needed.
utterly worthless vow, if a corrupt US court then rules that protection doesn’t apply, MS is gonna shrug and say “oh well, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Gotta follow the law here”
I for one am ditching Windows and Office which I’ve been using professionally since Windows 3.0. It’s the year of the Linux for me. As per data in US clouds (even hosted in EU), it was never safe.
same. been using MS shit since DOS 3.0 command line interface. now in the process of moving to linux. got a tuta mail account with my own custom domains in order to de-google. moving from dropbox to pcloud. switching from US vpn to european vpn
it’ll never be enough, but i will loudly contribute to the message. even if a US company is good (LMAOOOOO), all the data anyone ever had or has pretty much belongs to trump’s NSA/FBI/CIA/etc now. fuck that shit
What’s your advice to replace Office?
I’m trying OnlyOffice with my new cloud provider and… Even the most basic settings (default language for text document) are… Well let’s say I still couldn’t change it.
Try Softmaker if you don’t like Libre/Onlyoffice. It’s worth it.
It is not perfect,but especially for people coming from MS it’s often much much easier to adopt.
I’ll take a look thanks.
I’m neutral regarding OnlyOffice, but some feature abs settings should be available in the settings menu without changing configuration files.
It depends on your use case I’d say. I’m replacing outlook with possibly Thunderbird or just web interface when it comes to exchange. I don’t use word, instead markdown for simple documents or typst for more complex ones. Instead of PowerPoint I’ll use JavaScript/html based presentation engines and instead of excel, I don’t know yet, perhaps LibreOffice equivalent. But then again, I’m more a developer than content creator.
TL;DR when it comes to word like documents, check out typst. It requires a shift, but you might like it.
Why didn’t they take this shit seriously before? Fuck Microsoft.
Because corrupt… I mean “lobbying”
Then brags about having 20-30% AI generated codebase.
Obligatory reminder to all Linux users to help every Windows user interested in switching.
vowing to fight the US government in court to protect Euro customers’ data if needed.
Problem is they simply can’t do that, the anti terror laws are enforced in secret, supported by secret laws and processed in secret courts. If you work against them in any way, you can be treated as a terrorist just for that.
The agreement between USA and EU for USA to respect EU law was never worth the paper it’s written on. Because US law simply doesn’t agree, and is designed to trump the agreement.
If you reveal anything from above secret law enforcement, you are yourself guilty of acts against the safety of United states. And if you in any way obstruct it, you can be held, prosecuted and judged as a terrorist with basically no civil rights.It’s insane that EU fell for it, and played along in the American circus to dismantle human rights and democracy.
If EU finally wakes up about such issues, I might actually celebrate the Trump presidency!!USA has decided to burn civil rights and human rights, and undermine democracy both globally and at home, let’s make sure that shit doesn’t spread to EU!!!
No shit they are. Even after all this blows over, as it inevitably will, they’re still gonna be huge… but what might be a small loss percentage-wise is still quite big when you’re as big as Microsoft.
Here in the nordics they seem to have almost every company and almost every municipality as their customer, if there’s a rule coming in saying public data must be in Europe or something like that — that’s a lot of dollars lost. Same if just a percentage or two of companies decide they’re not fans of American tech anymore.
If they made quality products there wouldn’t be a problem for them.