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Microsoft exec admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2025
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Thank you for this link.
Since our previous - competent - IT engineer retired last year and my company hired a young, utterly incompetent MCSE monkey, the company has been more and more falling into the Microsoft cloud trap, what with Office 365, Teams, Sharepoint, and more and more pointless Windows servers to replace our perfectly working but no longer administered Linux machines. It's so bad that this Microsoft jockey caused 25 working machines to be landfilled because they can't be updated to Windows 11.
And so since this guy was hired, I've been sending choice links to our CEO, who is NOT an idiot and listens to common sense, to convince him that entangling the company with Microsoft is a very bad stragegy, both in terms of finances and data soveignty.
The argument that Microsoft was an untrustworthy data-hungry company didn't quite land with him. The fact that it now operates in a fascist country certainly had more of an effect on him. I'm hoping your link will turn more gears in his head..
Good luck!