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Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers (arstechnica.com)
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The global backlash against the second Donald Trump administration keeps on growing. Canadians have boycotted US-made products, anti–Elon Musk posters have appeared across London amid widespread Tesla protests, and European officials have drastically increased military spending as US support for Ukraine falters. Dominant US tech services may be the next focus.

There are early signs that some European companies and governments are souring on their use of American cloud services provided by the three so-called hyperscalers. Between them, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) host vast swathes of the Internet and keep thousands of businesses running. However, some organizations appear to be reconsidering their use of these companies’ cloud services—including servers, storage, and databases—citing uncertainties around privacy and data access fears under the Trump administration.

“There’s a huge appetite in Europe to de-risk or decouple the over-dependence on US tech companies, because there is a concern that they could be weaponized against European interests,” says Marietje Schaake, a nonresident fellow at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and a former decadelong member of the European Parliament.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

There is no real alternative to Excel, that's the killer app. Anyone arguing differently hasn't got the corporate experience to argue.

Doesn't even matter if an alternate is better, and none are, it's about rock-solid compatibility and knowing your sheets and books will still work in 20-years.

MS fucks about with OS updates, but notice that they never break Excel? (or Word or PowerPoint for that matter)

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Word has been broken since v.5.1a. But you’re right about Excel.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Of course there are alternatives to Excel. Anyone pretending otherwise has only worked at a few places and is generalizing with great but mistaken confidence.

But even if there weren't, think about those companies living on the edge of one software breakdown. There's a word for that: brittle. Meh, YOLO.