Every middle power is waking up to this fact. Even compared to Europe we’ve let US vendors control our critical IT systems almost completely
Public cloud, networking, security, software, is pretty much all US. But our market isnt big enough to support something comparable just for the UK. We need a pan-European solution
EditorRedditer on
We shouldn’t look on the dark side too much; just because Palantir have struck a £330 million deal to garner NHS data (partly enabled by Mandelson) and the French government have swapped over to Linux almost overnight.
We’ll be FINE…😏
TheGreatestOrator on
We literally have a deep intelligence alliance. The Five Eyes. What a bizarre thing to even worry about.
LonelyWizardDead on
its going to take decades to untangle and millians / billians pounbds to sort out not to mention contract detals.
even right now people are still migrating to MS azure as example becase “its the thing to do” and its what everyone else is doing.
that doesnt happen over night and migratig petabytes of data needs to be planned tested ect.
Wise-Youth2901 on
The UK is not going to stop using US tech. Sorry, it just ain’t going to happen. For a start, a Democrat will be President again at some point and all this, we need to ween ourselves off the US stuff, will quickly fade into the background.
ericthehoverbee on
Huge opportunity for consumers to save money by forcing suppliers to actually sell software to consumers rather than renting it out and perpetual updating it to oblivion. Have any Microsoft office applications improved in the last 10 years?
iamapizza on
The warning needs to extend to civilian spheres as well. Big tech has roots deep into our lives while being a security risk: Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook are tied deeply to our daily lives and it needs us to be weaned off. But it’s down to convincing us as a general population that their presence in our lives is unsafe. I’m too pessimistic to see that happen.
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Every middle power is waking up to this fact. Even compared to Europe we’ve let US vendors control our critical IT systems almost completely
Public cloud, networking, security, software, is pretty much all US. But our market isnt big enough to support something comparable just for the UK. We need a pan-European solution
We shouldn’t look on the dark side too much; just because Palantir have struck a £330 million deal to garner NHS data (partly enabled by Mandelson) and the French government have swapped over to Linux almost overnight.
We’ll be FINE…😏
We literally have a deep intelligence alliance. The Five Eyes. What a bizarre thing to even worry about.
its going to take decades to untangle and millians / billians pounbds to sort out not to mention contract detals.
even right now people are still migrating to MS azure as example becase “its the thing to do” and its what everyone else is doing.
that doesnt happen over night and migratig petabytes of data needs to be planned tested ect.
The UK is not going to stop using US tech. Sorry, it just ain’t going to happen. For a start, a Democrat will be President again at some point and all this, we need to ween ourselves off the US stuff, will quickly fade into the background.
Huge opportunity for consumers to save money by forcing suppliers to actually sell software to consumers rather than renting it out and perpetual updating it to oblivion. Have any Microsoft office applications improved in the last 10 years?
The warning needs to extend to civilian spheres as well. Big tech has roots deep into our lives while being a security risk: Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook are tied deeply to our daily lives and it needs us to be weaned off. But it’s down to convincing us as a general population that their presence in our lives is unsafe. I’m too pessimistic to see that happen.