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In stark contrast to the dutch taxes division moving fully to office 365 this month.
by rowanG077 1y ago
In stark contrast to the dutch taxes division moving fully to office 365 this month.
- fanatic2pope 1y agoInteresting. Apparently they are planning to spend €2 million a year just to keep manual backups of critical data in case the US cuts off access. https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/10/dutch-tax-office-moves-email-to-microsoft-despite-privacy-fears/ https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/10/dutch-tax-office-moves-emai...
- Ringz 1y agoOk… that’s odd. Wouldn’t expect anything like this from the Dutch government, since they have a very progressive digital image in Europe.
- usrnm 1y agoFor the past 15 years being progressive meant moving everything to the (US-owned) cloud
- andrepd 1y agoImage ≠ reality :)
- vladms 1y agoNetherlands is generally very sensitive to price, so if the US cloud (plus the 2 millions for the backup) was cheaper than the alternatives they gladly took it. Also, I would expect Microsoft offered them a big discount...
- WhyNotHugo 1y agoEven the infrastructure for .nl domain registration moved to the US (AWS IIRC). There’s some Dutch governments organisations which are quite progressive, but others continue digging themselves deeps into MS/AWS.
- jamesblonde 1y agoThe Swedish tax authorities went all in on Azure. Insane. And screw solidarity with the Danes. We rent our digital infra, and now the Don extractive rents. He also threatens us if we want to have our own laws or, god forbid, support our own digital infra.