Mozilla is betting Europe's digital sovereignty push can help fund Firefox
Firefox Enterprise adds a self-hosted management console and AI controls for organizations, with Thunderbird Enterprise to follow
Digital sovereignty articles
Europe is building its own payment network to finally compete with Visa and Mastercard
ENP connects payment networks that already exist, covering 130 million users across 13 countries
The Netherlands is building its own Linux OS to break free from Microsoft
The Dutch government wants to replace US software with Linux and open-source alternatives
Switzerland is paying $11 million to stop using Outlook and Teams
The openDesk suite will replace Microsoft 365 on 3,000 PCs, with 54,000 more possibly next
Editor's take: Switzerland is joining a growing list of European countries that no longer want to do business with Microsoft and other US IT giants. The federal government has already begun ditching Microsoft's productivity tools in favor of open-source alternatives, and the country's military authorities are moving even faster with the transition.
Europeans are starting to see US tech as a privacy risk, survey claims
Digital sovereignty is shifting from a Big Tech policy debate to a consumer concern
The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything
Europe is building walls around its digital infrastructure
Europe is moving to block Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling government health, financial, and legal data
The latest move in a widening standoff over who controls Europe's digital infrastructure – but private companies are exempt
France starts moving government systems from Windows to Linux
The big picture: European governments have long sought to reduce their dependency on non-European (i.e., American) software. While individual municipalities and government sectors have recently begun switching to homegrown options, France's latest announcement signals a broader shift away from tools such as Windows, Microsoft Office, Zoom, and Google Docs.
A new OnlyOffice fork is Europe's answer to Microsoft Office
Euro-Office is already caught in a licensing dispute with its source project
France is ditching Zoom and Microsoft Teams for a homegrown video platform
Visio rollout underscores Europe's uneasy reliance on American cloud and communication services
The International Criminal Court is replacing Microsoft Office with "sovereign" EU suite OpenDesk
ICC personnel doesn't trust Microsoft or other US-made software products anymore