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Currently discussed here: 2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828420

Actually it's only the eMail handling which is probably the easiest one to replace.

Nice. I wonder how hard it would be to take the open-source code of the project and adapt it to other countries.

Cool map! MX as in mail exchanger. For something as easy (for IT pros at least) as email, that map should be all green!

Unfortunately, the pain that Windows has become has yet to prevail over the fear of change for many users.

And onedrive good lord what a pain

For AI: https://www.swiss-ai.org/ For Starlink: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutelsat_OneWeb

It's debatable whether there is a need for the latter in Switzerland though. They have maybe the best fiber network in Europe, which far outperforms anything Satellite-based. You'll regularly get 25 Gb/s symmetrical on residential connections: https://sschueller.github.io/posts/the-free-market-lie/

Lol, starlink in Switzerland ?

They got the best fiber and the cheapest. They'd laugh at starlink.

starlink in switzerland is like trying to sell hershey to ferrero :)

Excel is the most widely used document format, database, software runtime, GUI framework and note taking app. It gives Emacs a run for its money in how much you can abuse and overuse one application.

LibreOffice Calc: Free Spreadsheet Software for Windows, Mac, and Linux

https://en.libre-office.fr/article.php/libreoffice-calc-free...

give it a go. Ive never had problems for my use case.

I managed to convince my org to put up a Grist instance. I now use it for everything I would normally use Sheets for, plus a whole lot more. Row/columnwise permissions, file attachments, multiple views over data, python formulas...

It's a db not a spreadsheet but it's basically the tool I actually needed when I would reach for excel.

I feel like Excel is their one true moat. Everything else is a business play, but Excel is the only truly superior tech compared to the alternatives.

Recent events make it quite clear that this time it is going to be different.

It was like you described earlier. Last year and this year it is basically cumulating over multiple countries.

Swiss people are very upset with what is going on with their military spending in US. I do believe they will be serious about all other purchases from US.

The whole gendarmerie in France switched more than 2 decades ago first to libreoffice (was openoffice in earlier days) then to their own ubuntu fork.

But it worked well because it is military, they can manage long term projects without too much external interference and there is zero friction (if the head decides, the rest follows without asking).

In regular public administration, decisions can easily be overturned depending on results of each elections and it is not uncommon to face internal sabotage.

Zermatt is a ski resort for wealthy foreign tousrists, accessible only by train. But, yeah, it has no cars.

Direct democracy instead of a cult of showman.

We move slow. But the clima for change is here now, it's been brewing for a decade or so. Expect Europe to not use more money on US services the next two decade. So with inflation you will really see a significant decline. My 5 cents

Switzerland is not in the EU. That said, if their goal is to get off US big-tech, I feel they're left with Apple for hardware and Google for software, realistically.

I'm still fascinated that Ukraine has been going on since 2014 and the EU has spent more time and air trying to go after US industries than Russian ones or Chinese. You'd think the US had actually captured Greenland.

Anyway I get it - just, odd to think about. Passion accounts for a lot.

None of them care about Microsoft's shareholder value

Nil

Some of us have already done that.

Yes we do