Certainly the Blacklight test show that Microsoft EU respect way more the privacy (forced by law) than Microsoft US.
Data sovereignty is going to be key to maintaining any sovereignity going forward, it’s so vital to the function of society and the economy that outsourcing it to another country is just giving part of yourself away.
I would think the Chinese government switching all government PCs and servers to KylinOS by 2026, would be weighing on all US tech companies.
literally the year of the linux desktop
“We will store backup copies of our code in a secure repository in Switzerland, and we will provide our European partners with the legal rights needed to access and use this code if needed for this purpose.”
If Microsoft is going to actually risk giving access to their source code then they’re really scared!
Microsoft should be getting worried about Linux.
Azure runs almost entirely on Linux. MS has no need to be afraid of it.
Yes, but currently Linux isn’t a valid option for a lot of users, because a lot of professional and corporation apps, apart of most games are Windows only. To rise Linux is needed to change this first. The only alternative for this issue is maybe using instead eg. WindowsX, something like an “de-microsofted” Windows. Linux is certainly the best alternative, but also has some drawbacks, like too much different distros not always compatible one with another, depending on the distro also often an deficient support and maintance, certain driver problems, among others. Not good if an still minority OS is above to diversified, which cause a lot of problems for the devs of software. To dethrone Windows as leader of the market does it still need a lot of work in many environments.
It’s not a plug and play solution yet but Winapps exists and can run almost any Windows software on Linux using RDP.
they are literally doing that with wine and proton.
most peoples use cases are covered in the workplace.
For business usage, it’s really just Debian and Red Hat as options, along with their derivatives. For personal use, add Arch to the list.
Other distros exist but people don’t generally need to worry about them, their stability or compatibility, etc. This includes developers as well as users.
Good, fuck microsoft.
Certainly the Blacklight test show that Microsoft EU respect way more the privacy (forced by law) than Microsoft US.
What test?
But really, I read the whole article and there’s nothing mentioned about a blacklight test.
https://themarkup.org/blacklight
In Options in the search bar you can filter the country US or EU
Oh I see. That’s just measuring tracking scripts on websites. It’s not particularly relevant to what is discussed in the article (data sovereignty of cloud providers).
Yes, but you can also proof it, checking and even blocking the traffic in the OS, eg. with Portmaster. Not a big Problem. Different to MacOS, Windows permits to make it reasinable private in the settings, the only problem is that a lot of settings (in total over 200 setting points and registry entries) are indocumented and hidden. The OS as such is only another modified UNIX fork, the worse part are the apps. telemetries and services added by M$. The gutted, mencioned WindowsX, shows it, also mine DIY version of Windows11 24H2 which I use, with only <700 MB in RAM, after eliminating all this MS crap.
Again, nothing to do with Microsoft’s cloud platform.
But a lot with it’s TOS and PP in any MS products and services in the EU. MS can’t act in the EU the same way as in the US.
You’re going to link me to youtube shorts?
Please, no.
