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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 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.

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I want to say various cities/regions in Germany make statements like this every few years? And they usually end up rolling back when it becomes clear the cost to retrain both existing staff and new staff isn't worth it.

That said: This gets the national security bump so maybe it will stick. Also nobody on the planet likes to use Teams.

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[–] thirtyfold8625@thebrainbin.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This seems to be the same article, but uses a URL that doesn't lead to a page that is essentially blank for me: https://us.afpnews.com/article/?were-done-with-teams-german-state-hits-uninstall-on-microsoft,49PM3G2

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Is that not literally the same link as the OP?

EDIT: Ah, the OP's edit from 30 minutes before your comment has not federated out to your instance yet.

[–] thirtyfold8625@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hmm, I think this is an Mbin vs Lemmy issue. There are two differences in the URL:

  1. The broken URL has %2C instead of ,. This part does not make a difference, because that resolves to a comma anyway
  2. The broken URL has = at the very end for some reason. This is what breaks it. Remove that character, and the URL works fine

The weird thing here is that the broken URL only ever shows up on Mbin. Below are a few different links to the comment in which you shared the broken URL. If you view the comment on your Mbin instance, it is indeed broken. But if you view it on this community's Lemmy instance or my home instance, your same comment actually has the working URL. Something about how the post/comment were federated must have messed things up.

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

I've used them all pretty much and it's a really shitty product

[–] Thief@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 2 days ago

I took a look and its quite complicated to install requiring a very complex kubernates clustwr. Unclear why it is so disparate when something like nextcloud can be single containerised. I feel like this could be simplified for deployment.

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