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Europe and the beast

Breaking Big Tech’s Grip: Europe’s OpenDesk Challenges Microsoft 365

21. October 2026 / 21. October 2026 by Kiara of European Cloud | Leave a Comment

The open-source platform OpenDesk has sold licenses for over 200,000 workspaces, so successful that the developer ZenDis has reorganized its sales model.

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Microsoft and Mistral AI: good for Europe’s AI or death of The Only Hope?

26. July 2026 / 27. July 2026 by Georg Kalus | Leave a Comment

Microsoft has announced an agreement with Mistral AI to scale AI compute infrastructure and integrate Mistral’s models into Microsoft’s cloud

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Au revoir Microsoft Teams, Zoom

28. January 2026 / 8. February 2026 by Kiara of European Cloud | Leave a Comment

France will replace Microsoft Teams and Zoom with a domestically‑built video‑conferencing service called Visio by 2027 over security concerns.

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Microsoft admits it ‘cannot guarantee’ data sovereignty

24. July 2025 / 2. December 2025 by Kiara of European Cloud | Leave a Comment

Microsoft admits it cannot guarantee data sovereignty for its customers in France and the EU because of the US CLOUD Act.

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Delos Cloud – the “sovereign” cloud for the public sector

The Delos Cloud provides Microsoft Azure services and Microsoft Office 365 in a fully sovereign manner, not operated by Microsoft.

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Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty

Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty comprises of several technical and organizational measures, such as Sovereign Landing Zone, EU Data Boundary and Confidential Computing.