US Edition'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
- The northern state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to stop using Microsoft's Teams for collaboration, as stated by Digitalisation Minister Dirk Schroedter during a video call.
- Schleswig-Holstein aims to switch to open-source software to regain control over data storage and ensure digital sovereignty, according to Dirk Schroedter.
- Experts suggest that moving to open-source options can be more economical than licensing Microsoft products.
- The EU's Interoperable Europe Act supports this trend, promoting the adoption of open-source software since its enactment last year.
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Germany Begins Government-Wide Exit from Microsoft Software - Digital Boom
In a landmark shift toward digital independence, the German state of Schleswig-Holstein is dropping Microsoft software across all public departments. By September 2025, civil servants, police, and judges will stop using Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, and Windows — switching entirely to open-source alternatives. According to a report by France 24 Why Schleswig-Holstein is saying goodbye […] Source
German companies are concerned about over-reliance on cloud services from abroad. Current developments in the United States in particular are raising doubts about the reliability of cloud service providers such as Microsoft, Amazon AWS and Google, the German digital industry association Bitkom said on Wednesday. According to a representative study by Bitkom, every second company in Germany that uses cloud computing feels forced to reconsider its…
Free and non-Microsoft software solutions ? The latest announcement by the German state of Schleswig-Holstein regarding the abandonment of Microsoft Teams for a free solution is not a novelty. The cases of the Municipality of Munich and the Federated State of Lower Saxony in Germany illustrate it. A Turkish municipality claimed to have saved $1 million on the costs of Windows licenses as part of its migration to Linux Pardus, this, even though t…
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