#Microsoft support for #Office and #Exchange without #cloud ends 2025-10:
techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5…
If you're still using their products by then, you have definitely given up digital sovereignty and you're happy to embrace the possibility of industrial #espionage by US companies.
Yes, I know what this means.
And you're then consuming services where an unknown number of foreign/external players has infiltrated and owns administrative permissions: cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2…
Exchange Server Roadmap Update
We are now ready to share our long-term roadmap for Exchange Server.TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM
Karl Voit
in reply to Karl Voit • • •It would definitely improve the situation a lot when parts of the large amount of money that is transferred to #Microsoft now finds its way to alternative #FOSS #Groupware solutions.
#EU #decentralization #digitalindependence
ErikP
in reply to Karl Voit • • •Karl Voit
in reply to ErikP • • •@erikp My original source was this German article that also contained that notion: heise.de/news/Microsoft-Uhr-fu…
If my research of the mentioned sources omitted something, I'm sorry.
Microsoft: Support für Office und Exchange ohne Cloud endet 2025
Rainald Menge-Sonnentag (heise online)ErikP
in reply to Karl Voit • • •I am just curious, not an MS Exchange admin.
At the end of the article, there is a link to techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5… which is a recent article. MS (of course) recommends the cloud version but also presents alternatives like the upcoming Exchange release (still scheduled for H2 2025, which is about the end of support for the current Exchange version).
I'd like to hear (or read) stories from (non-IT) organisations with 100+ employees that have switched from Outlook to anything FOSS.
Key End of Support dates for Office 2016, 2019 Apps & Productivity Servers
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