German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by ffgjgf1 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @09:34AM (#39930220)

I guess MS could just find a way to guarantee that any data is only stored in data centers in Europe. It shouldn’t be too complicated and I don’t see how could they be considered to be a foreign cloud then.

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Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by dividedbyzero on Thursday April 04, 2024 @10:42AM (#39931044)

Can the US government still force them to violate that guarantee? If yes, then they're a foreign cloud.

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Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by ffgjgf1 on Monday April 08, 2024 @03:48AM (#39967249)

But then that would apply to every company that has datacenters and provides services both in US and Europe?

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Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by CRConrad on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @05:18AM (#39988641)

I don't think so. The US government could kill Microsoft; no European government could. The EU / some European government could kill a European company; the US couldn't.

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