I really hope this becomes the norm in Europe.
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USA just switched off starlink in Ukraine. They blocked Microsoft accounts and visa cards from ICC members. You can't rely on USA tech. It's got a killswitch and a madman ready to push the button.
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Now if they also directed the license cost savings back toward funding their newly chosen oss projects, we'd be golden.
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I agree. Digital sovereignty is important for the EU. The less we are in the pocket of the US the better.
Digital anarchy is important for the regular people. The more you take technology in your own hands, the less you are at the whims of centralised services.
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Microslop is a security risk. An OS with a backdoor isn't useful for anything but gaming.
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It's always nice to see Microsoft get kicked in the balls.
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I wonder if the tech companies will realize their bending to Trump is going to shoot them in the ass
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More of this please!!!
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They should consider LibreOffice if they don’t need cloud features.
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Kudos to the Netherlands, the Oranje made the correct decision.
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Oh my God! How are they going to work without MS Teams?
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Ther's only two things I hate in this world, people who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the... no, wait! I love the Dutch!
GVD JA!!!!!
Laat ze maaris iets zien noorderburen! Hup holland hup!
One of those changes that requires and entire generation of workers to retire.. boomers
Until that happens, they stand in the way of change. After they are put out to pasture, change occurs at a normal pace, according to logic and reason, as it always should. Even in normal times.
I expect to see a lot of shifts in things as the boomers finally begin to die off. Medical advances are extending their lives to freakish extremes, but so far not one of them has proven to be immortal. .
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…and the Dutch
As someone whose job just switched to D365.. It's been a nightmare.
The detail that stands out to me is that this was the tax authority specifically — the institution with the most sensitive possible data trove deciding the sovereignty question matters more than the migration roadmap. That's a different calculus than a regular ministry would make.
The DPA precedent probably weighed in too. The Dutch data protection authority has been aggressive on exactly this (the Schrems II follow-throughs, the earlier government guidance against US cloud for personal data). Once your regulator has signaled the position, staying the course turns a technical decision into a legal exposure.
Interesting that the reasoning is reportedly about control and exit costs, not just price. That matches what I keep hearing from people who run large deployments: the lock-in tax shows up years later, when you discover your workflows, integrations, and data shapes have all quietly molded themselves around one vendor's APIs. A tax authority is one of the few orgs with the patience and staff to actually pull off a sovereign-stack migration, so this will be a useful data point either way. Hope someone documents the migration honestly, because the failure modes would be more instructive than the press release.
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