The Swiss government is aiming to gradually shift away from a dependency on Microsoft products, according to the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper. A spokesman for the Federal Chancellery told the newspaper that the federal administration “aims to reduce its dependency on Microsoft, step by step and in the long term”.
This comes as a surprise, as Microsoft 365 was recently installed on some 54,000 administration workstations – despite concerns about data security. Calls for alternatives previously met with internal resistance and charges of “tinkering”, the NZZ am Sonntag writes.
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