Home Anonymous Operations Civil Liberties in the Digital World Europe’s dire dependency on Microsoft
Wednesday 24 May 2017
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All across Europe, from Finland to Portugal, Ireland to Greece, the information technology (IT) of government administrations is based on Microsoft programmes. But because digital systems are constantly growing in both size and importance, countries are becoming ever increasingly dependent on this single corporation.
Investigate Europe, a team of journalists, explored this question for three months, interviewing economists, computer scientists, IT managers, security experts and politicians from twelve European countries, as well as the EU Commission and EU Parliament. The results are alarming
This investigation will be published in more than 12 countries.
Read more - Investigate Europe: Full investigation
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