The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony | Full Documentary https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/cbb9f78a-9705-41f6-b7a3-e869e1a0e7f2 Many state and public administrations from Helsinki to Lisbon operate with the software of the US corporation. It makes them vulnerable for hackers and spies, violates European public procurement law, blocks technical progress and costs Europe dearly. Harald Schumann and his Investigate Europe research team have spoken to insiders and managers throughout Europe about this. Martin Schallbruch, the former head of IT at the German Government, reports how the states are becoming increasingly dependent on Microsoft. A top Dutch lawyer describes how the EU Commission and governments are violating European procurement law. In France, the Ministry of Defence has bypassed parliament in concluding secret contracts with Microsoft, so Senator Joelie Garriaud-Maylam now wants to set up a committee of inquiry. The Hamburg data protection officer Johannes Caspar warns that the Microsoft systems could expose private data of citizens to investigation by the US secret services. Internal documents prove that the Federal Office for Information Security shares this mistrust. Both the European Parliament and the German Bundestag have therefore repeatedly called for state IT systems to be converted to open source software that can be tested by Europe's own security authorities. Italy's army has also begun this change, tells Italian general Camillo Sileo. The same is true for police authorities in France and Lithuania or the cities of Rome and Barcelona. But why do most governments oppose against the alternatives, or even - as in the case of the city of Munich - return into the arms of the monopolist Microsoft? Andrup Ansip, EU Commissioner for the Digital Single Market and other stakeholders face the questions. A film by Harald Schumann and Árpád Bondy Sun, 17 May 2026 04:55:15 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://spectra.video The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony | Full Documentary https://spectra.video/lazy-static/avatars/71f5d173-eea9-47a7-b254-f7e91f9f5d25.png https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/cbb9f78a-9705-41f6-b7a3-e869e1a0e7f2 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://spectra.video/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder. <![CDATA[The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony | Full Documentary - Chewie]]> https://spectra.video/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy;threadId=51337 https://spectra.video/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy;threadId=51337 Wed, 24 Sep 2025 21:16:01 GMT wtf? Microsoft employees have French governmental email addresses??

]]> Chewie <![CDATA[The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony | Full Documentary - EU OS]]> https://spectra.video/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy;threadId=42195 https://spectra.video/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy;threadId=42195 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:59:12 GMT Reboost ♻️ plz: #Throwback to 2018 – @hsc55 interviews the Commission in his film https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/cbb9f78a-9705-41f6-b7a3-e869e1a0e7f2:

Q: Why has the Commission abandoned their policy from 2013 to free the EU institutions and member states from the dependence on a few American software companies?

Commissioner for Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip: "I don't think we have abandoned this policy. The only solution is to invest more, to catch up."

@slrpnk @janalbrecht @EC_DIGIT @EC_OSPO @ngi

#EU_OS #Endof10 #Maxar #USpol

]]> EU OS <![CDATA[The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony | Full Documentary - EU OS]]> https://spectra.video/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy;threadId=42195 https://spectra.video/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy;threadId=42195 Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:41:48 GMT @slrpnk has uploaded the documentary of @hsc55 from 2018:

The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony

Watch it here: https://kolektiva.media/w/cbb9f78a-9705-41f6-b7a3-e869e1a0e7f2

(also in 🇩🇪: https://kolektiva.media/w/xjKF12aLsDVSR1v7CVdWts)

"Many state and public administrations from Helsinki to Lisbon operate with the software of the US corporation. It makes them vulnerable for hackers and spies, violates European public procurement law, blocks technical progress and costs Europe dearly"

#Microsoft #EU_OS #Windows11 #WannaCry @janalbrecht

]]> EU OS <![CDATA[The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony | Full Documentary - Peter König]]> https://spectra.video/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy;threadId=28543 https://spectra.video/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy;threadId=28543 Sun, 14 Apr 2024 12:44:37 GMT @slrpnk

Thanks for sharing the Englisch version!

The original German version was uploaded one year ago:

https://kolektiva.media/w/xjKF12aLsDVSR1v7CVdWts

Funny to see Jan Philipp Albrecht as a member of the EP 😉

But also nice to see, that the times have changed - at least mentally: Some of the stange statements of some "concrete heads" would surely not happen nowadays🤦

But things happen - as always in small scale first: Prototype in Munic, in SH now to production

https://social.schleswig-holstein.de/@landesregierung/112206271386200583

https://www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/landesregierung/ministerien-behoerden/I/_startseite/Artikel2024/II/240403_digitalsouveraene_verwaltung.html

]]> Peter König <![CDATA[The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony | Full Documentary - Angela Scholder]]> https://spectra.video/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy;threadId=28541 https://spectra.video/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy;threadId=28541 Sun, 14 Apr 2024 12:13:06 GMT @slrpnk And it only became worse since...

]]> Angela Scholder <![CDATA[The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony | Full Documentary - db]]> https://spectra.video/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy;threadId=28539 https://spectra.video/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy;threadId=28539 Sun, 14 Apr 2024 10:34:54 GMT @slrpnk Everything that is enormous is a danger for everyone: not only people but governments and so on. GAFAMs should be destroyed. More generally every over-1GEUR-capitalization should be forbidden. db

]]> db <![CDATA[The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony | Full Documentary - Euan Mason]]> https://spectra.video/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy;threadId=28533 https://spectra.video/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy;threadId=28533 Sat, 13 Apr 2024 23:36:50 GMT @slrpnk Interesting. I have been allowed to install #Linux on an old machine that was destined for disposal at my workplace. So far it’s great, fast, has a small footprint and I can do almost everything I need to do for my job. The only exceptions are forestry-specific software packages that only work on windows.

]]> Euan Mason <![CDATA[The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony | Full Documentary - Bour]]> https://spectra.video/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy;threadId=28528 https://spectra.video/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy;threadId=28528 Sat, 13 Apr 2024 17:54:10 GMT Thank you for this!
Your channel name is the reason I instantly subscribed 😃

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