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'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft (www.france24.com)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

This article is terrible.

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 [an unnamed, gaping information hole] open-source software to "take back control" over data storage and ensure "digital sovereignty", its digitalisation minister, Dirk Schroedter, told AFP.

"We're done with Teams!" he said, referring to Microsoft's messaging and collaboration tool and speaking on a video call -- via an [unnamed, gaping information hole] open-source German program, of course.

What will they use instead? Who the fuck knows! The article omits this crucial piece of information.

And don't say it's TBD; they're not going to say they're "done with Teams" without knowing what they're switching to. Or, even if they haven't put the final nail in the decision, they have a short list.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Probably BigBlueButton, or maybe Jitsi. Or, they’re still using Teams but didn’t want it mentioned in the article.

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