At a time of growing concern over the power of the world’s mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant ref=”dofollow” data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/microsoft” target=”_blank”>Microsoft.
In less than three months’ time, almost no civil servant, police officer or judge in Schleswig-Holstein will be using any of Microsoft’s ubiquitous programs at work.
Instead, the northern state will turn to ref=”dofollow” data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/open-source-software” target=”_blank”>open-source software to “take back control” over data storage and ensure ” ref=”dofollow” data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/digital-sovereignty” target=”_blank”>digital sovereignty“, its digitalisation minister, Dirk Schroedter, told AFP.
“We’re done with Teams!” he said, referring to…
