Microsoft afferma di rispettare le leggi europee mentre gli Stati Uniti aumentano le tensioni commerciali con l’UE
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/30/microsoft-says-it-respects-european-laws-as-us-eu-tensions-heat-up.html
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Microsoft afferma di rispettare le leggi europee mentre gli Stati Uniti aumentano le tensioni commerciali con l’UE
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/30/microsoft-says-it-respects-european-laws-as-us-eu-tensions-heat-up.html
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Let me translate: “Please don’t implement tariffs on the US IT service sector, or our shareholders will get pissed”.
Might be a good time to allow some actual competition against MS. Stop them buying up and controlling vast swaths of industries, data, IP’s, etc and introduce a bit of balance.
They’re starting to be scared
Seems someone is scared huh š
Sounds like fear.
I guess their biggest chance is to make Microsoft EU a legally independent company.
Yeah right.
Instead of depending on corporations, it is better to fund open source software that will be free for all citizens
It is time to take steps in this direction. Even someone in Germany is proposing changes [https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/29/germany-committing-to-odf-and-open-document-standards/](https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/29/germany-committing-to-odf-and-open-document-standards/)
>āLike every citizen and company, we donāt always agree with every policy of every government. But even when weāve lost cases in European courts, Microsoft has long respected and complied with European laws,ā Smith said in a blog post Wednesday.
>The EU has for years been trying to tame U.S. Big Tech firms over competition issues. The blocāsĀ Digital Markets Act (DMA), which became enforceable last year, aims to tackle the market power of large so-called āgatekeeperā firms such as Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft.
The post accurately reflects Microsoft’s public stance of respecting European laws despite rising U.S.-EU trade tensions in 2025, with Microsoft committing to comply with local regulations and expanding its European data centers. However, the broader context indicates that the EU’s economy grew faster than expected in Q1 2025 despite U.S. tariffs, and the EU has prepared retaliation measures against U.S. tariffs, highlighting ongoing trade conflicts that could influence multinational corporate compliance.
* [Microsoft announces new European digital commitments](https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/04/30/european-digital-commitments/)
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Not tariffs dumbass penalties, sanctions . Punish the perpetrators not the clients
How requirment to register account and have online connections with disc encryption is respecting European law? There are few case against MS and they practices against customers.
The EU, UK and every other country needs to just wait a couple days.
Letās see what happens on 2nd May when the currently exempt deliveries, under $800, start getting tariffs applied. Letās see if Japan hits treasuries again.
China has done the heavy lifting on this with Japan and Korea supporting. We probably need to back them a bit for taking action.
It literally doesnt matter whatever they say as long as theyre an american company. They have no say in whatever the US does with their services if push comes to shove
They will say anything to keep selling their products in Europe. MONEY is always FIRST and foremost.
I really hate to defend Microsoft, but out of all the big tech corporations:
– Their CEO didn’t attend Trump’s inauguration and they don’t seem to be bowing down to him (at least as far as I know)
– They’re probably the company that complained the least about EU directives and complied rather quickly, allowing EU users to strip more Microsoft stuff away from the OS
Microsoft’s financials of course depend a lot on business and government contracts, it’s absolutely in their best interest to keep European customers. But, with that said, I can’t stress enough how Europe needs to invest more in open source technologies.