Microsoft made sure the definition of a “Canadian company” is based on the number of employees in Canada so they qualify for those contracts. No joke. I want to RFP something besides PowerBI and all the little open source shops don’t qualify. Microsoft does.
Yup, doesn’t matter where the data centres are - a contract is only as trustworthy as the person or company you signed it with. Throwing all your government and medical and everything else docs on somebody else’s computer with a “trust me bro” privacy statement seems like a recipe for disaster.
As they realized in Europe, Microsoft will turn data over to the US govt if requested, so using it on sensitive systems should be seen as a bigger security threat than some video app.
As a matter of national security we need to move our digital services to Canadian platforms, or platforms other than Microsoft.
Canadian is good. Open-source would be better.
Microsoft made sure the definition of a “Canadian company” is based on the number of employees in Canada so they qualify for those contracts. No joke. I want to RFP something besides PowerBI and all the little open source shops don’t qualify. Microsoft does.
Yes, yes, and yes. Microslop has shown they will “accidentally” leak stuff if you threaten to move so governments should move.
Yup, doesn’t matter where the data centres are - a contract is only as trustworthy as the person or company you signed it with. Throwing all your government and medical and everything else docs on somebody else’s computer with a “trust me bro” privacy statement seems like a recipe for disaster.
As they realized in Europe, Microsoft will turn data over to the US govt if requested, so using it on sensitive systems should be seen as a bigger security threat than some video app.
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