Comment by neycoda
2 years ago
Um, Google Business and Google Workspace isn't in the EU? They're great alternatives to Microsoft cloud in the US.
2 years ago
Um, Google Business and Google Workspace isn't in the EU? They're great alternatives to Microsoft cloud in the US.
As I said at the beginning, this applies to most other enterprise big tech companies from the US. MS in particular has a hook others don't: most companies right now are still solidly tied to Windows, Office, AD/Entra. This is the slope that easily leads to the whole M365 environment. It's hard even for Google to compete with this. And it's impossible for the almost non-existing EU offering in this space to compete. There are lots of individual services that could compete 1:1 with the equivalents from MS or Google but nothing that can compete with the full ecosystems and vertical integration they provide.
Even so, a law that benefits MS will also benefit Google under these circumstances. Any law that locks out MS or Google (like GDPR which constantly sees "exceptions" carved out) will have some severe economic repercussions on EU companies, not to speak of the political/diplomatic ones with the US.