In one of the most consequential shifts in public sector IT policy of recent years, the German state of Schleswig-Holstein has initiated an unprecedented government-wide migration away from Microsoft software, targeting every desktop and digital process used by civil servants, police, and the...
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The recent blocking of International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan’s Microsoft email account has sent ripples throughout the Netherlands, sparking an intense debate over the country’s reliance on U.S. technology giants. The incident, directly tied to U.S. foreign policy in the...
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When enterprises with heavy investments in Microsoft infrastructure consider moving to the cloud, their choice often boils down to a challenging and costly dilemma: sticking with Microsoft Azure or facing significant financial penalties when running Microsoft software on rival clouds like Amazon...
The challenge of migrating established enterprise workloads from Microsoft Windows to Linux is a significant hurdle in the broader cloud infrastructure market, particularly as organizations transition their operations to public cloud providers. Major cloud players such as Amazon Web Services...