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I don’t agree with that. I work in the public sector of Denmark and we haven’t had issues getting Microsoft to change things to meet our needs. Well we’re stil
by moksly 5y ago
I don’t agree with that. I work in the public sector of Denmark and we haven’t had issues getting Microsoft to change things to meet our needs.
Well we’re still struggling to get them to commit to never having Azure support work on our things with workers who aren’t EU citizens. But AWS complied with that rather quickly and Microsoft is bound to follow or lose a lot of business. And that last part is what’s important. It’s also why we can turn the telemetry off in the enterprise setups. So all you really need is someone high enough in the EU to make it stop and Microsoft will end it because it’s too valuable for them not to do so.
You’re right that we can’t easily leave Microsoft in the public sector, and we don’t really wish to do so either as the education of millions of workers alone would be so expensive there is no business case, but we’re not as reliant on Windows as we once were. Almost all our systems have become platform independent, including office365, and more and more of our new hires have never used a Windows PC when they join us.
- alpaca128 5y ago> It’s also why we can turn the telemetry off in the enterprise setups Good. But I'd prefer if the average EU citizen can have it turned off as well, by default. I can't pressure them with my single OEM license. Windows 10 is most likely not GDPR compliant and everyone knows it (I'd be very surprised if the hidden and sometimes impossible opt-out is fine). But aside from a ban in german schools[0] nothing is being done it seems. Amazon, Google, Facebook were all fined, I can't find anything about MS. [0] https://mspoweruser.com/german-privacy-commissioners-ban-windows-10-and-office-365-in-schools/ https://mspoweruser.com/german-privacy-commissioners-ban-win...