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Europe’s cloud problem is simple in one sentence: the continent needs a credible, large-scale cloud supplier that can match hyperscaler scale while answering Europe’s specific demands for data sovereignty, regulatory compliance, and strategic resilience—and the gap between aspirations and...

The European Commission’s decision to open three formal market investigations — two focused on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, and a third examining whether the Digital Markets Act (DMA) can meaningfully be applied to cloud computing — marks a decisive escalation in Brussels’...

The European Commission is preparing to push member states toward a unified, bloc‑level exclusion of Chinese mobile‑network vendors Huawei and ZTE — a policy shift that would turn the EU’s voluntary 2020 “5G Cybersecurity Toolbox” into enforceable, cross‑border rules and sharply accelerate the...

Europe’s sudden dependence on a handful of hyperscalers moved from abstract policy debate to urgent public‑policy problem this autumn, after two high‑impact outages — one at Amazon Web Services and one at Microsoft Azure — interrupted banking, transport, messaging and public services across the...

When a single cloud region hiccupped on Monday and took dozens of popular apps and services offline for hours, the incident did more than ruin a day of gaming and language practice — it underlined a growing geopolitical and economic fault line: Western digital life increasingly flows through a...

The European Commission has opened fresh lines of inquiry under the Digital Services Act, formally asking major platform operators — Snapchat, YouTube (Google/Alphabet), Apple (App Store) and Google Play — to explain how they prevent children from being exposed to illegal or harmful content, how...

Microsoft’s one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10 has bought time — but it has not ended the political, environmental, or technical dispute over whether an OS vendor can, by changing support timelines and hardware gates, effectively force working machines into early...

Three weeks is not a long time in the life of a PC, but when that window sits directly ahead of a fixed end-of-support deadline it becomes a hard stop: Windows 10 will stop receiving routine security and quality updates on October 14, 2025, and every Windows 10 user now has three practical...

Microsoft's decision to stop providing free security updates for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025 — a move that campaigners say could instantly strand hundreds of millions of otherwise functional PCs — has crystallised a new, urgent debate in Europe about software-driven obsolescence and whether...

On June 10, 2025, Microsoft France's legal director, Anton Carniaux, testified before the French Senate inquiry commission on public procurement and digital sovereignty. When asked if he could guarantee that French citizens' data stored in Microsoft's EU data centers would not be accessed by...

The tower of artificial intelligence, it seems, may have a very American lock on the front door. This, at least, was the sobering consensus coming out of a recent summit called by Germany’s national competition regulator, the Bundeskartellamt, where a cross-section of the European AI ecosystem...

In a potentially transformative moment for the European tech landscape, the European Commission is actively considering a move away from Microsoft Azure as its primary cloud service provider, with France-based OVHcloud emerging as the leading candidate. This shift, which has come to light...

The recent debut of DNS4EU marks a significant milestone in Europe's ongoing efforts to enhance digital sovereignty, privacy, and network security for its citizens and organizations. Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure, historically dominated by internet service providers (ISPs) and a...

The European Union stands at a crossroads in its ongoing effort to regain technological sovereignty as it prepares a sweeping legislative initiative: the Cloud and AI Development Act. This move, described by a senior European Commission official as an answer to the EU’s “sad story” in developing...

As European regulators intensify their scrutiny of Big Tech’s influence on the digital marketplace, Microsoft’s recent decision to unbundle its popular Teams collaboration platform from Office 365 and Microsoft 365 suites marks a significant, calculated response that could reverberate through...

Microsoft’s long-running battle with European Union antitrust regulators over its Teams video-conferencing software appears poised for a dramatic turning point—one that could reshape the company’s global product strategy and redefine competition in the digital collaboration space. The recent...

The European Union is stepping up its efforts to reclaim control over its digital destiny with a revamped draft report on digital sovereignty. The proposal—documented in a report titled “European Technological Sovereignty and Digital Infrastructure”—has been reworked with 464 new amendments...

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