If you read the latest tech news you may have noticed over the past month a few announcements from Denmark, Germany and city of Lyon in France covering their exit from using Microsoft ecosystem. One of their main motivation is data privacy and ownership, and for some, access to it.

With Windows 11 Microsoft has decided to end support to older desktop centered Microsoft Office applications and force their customers to migrate to Microsoft 365, where everything is online, hosted and controlled by Microsoft. Add to this to the current political climate where the American administration seems more than inclined to control everything digital and you have everything needed to instill doubts into what is happening to your Word or Excel documents.

So what about Cambodia you may ask? The same rules applies regarding Microsoft licensing policies and data "protection". Don't you care about your company's data? Don't you care about saving money and investing it in more useful projects?

Sure, as one use to say back in the days "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM.”. Today that IBM seems to be Microsoft and, maybe either due to risk aversion or lack of knowledge in the field, they are getting all your money and your data (which they can use to train their AI for free - but that is different topic altogether).

There are a few solutions in the open source world, offering reliable software running under Windows, Mac or Linux and allowing to create, modify and share documents as well as check emails. The most famous one would be Libre Office, Open Office, Thunderbird, Claws Mail and a few others. Migrating probably requires a plan to ensure all your team successfully adapts to the minor differences.

So if you are concerned about the topic and wondering why whole nations feel using Microsoft as something unsafe then please contact us and we will happily what are your options and how you can safely migrate and take full control over your data.

If you read the latest tech news you may have noticed over the past month a few announcements from Denmark, Germany and city of Lyon in France covering their exit from using Microsoft ecosystem. One of their main motivation is data privacy and ownership, and for some, access to it.

With Windows 11 Microsoft has decided to end support to older desktop centered Microsoft Office applications and force their customers to migrate to Microsoft 365, where everything is online, hosted and controlled by Microsoft. Add to this to the current political climate where the American administration seems more than inclined to control everything digital and you have everything needed to instill doubts into what is happening to your Word or Excel documents.

So what about Cambodia you may ask? The same rules applies regarding Microsoft licensing policies and data "protection". Don't you care about your company's data? Don't you care about saving money and investing it in more useful projects?

Sure, as one use to say back in the days "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM.”. Today that IBM seems to be Microsoft and, maybe either due to risk aversion or lack of knowledge in the field, they are getting all your money and your data (which they can use to train their AI for free - but that is different topic altogether).

There are a few solutions in the open source world, offering reliable software running under Windows, Mac or Linux and allowing to create, modify and share documents as well as check emails. The most famous one would be Libre Office, Open Office, Thunderbird, Claws Mail and a few others. Migrating probably requires a plan to ensure all your team successfully adapts to the minor differences.

So if you are concerned about the topic and wondering why whole nations feel using Microsoft as something unsafe then please contact us and we will happily what are your options and how you can safely migrate and take full control over your data.