{"slug": "switzerland-tests-a-foss-escape-route-from-microsoft-365", "title": "Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365", "summary": "Switzerland's federal administration has begun testing a free and open-source software (FOSS) alternative to Microsoft 365, aiming to reduce reliance on American cloud applications. The initiative, led by the Swiss Army, explores replacing proprietary office tools with open-source equivalents to enhance digital sovereignty.", "body_md": "### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n- \nSYSTEMS #### Samsung to help fortify OpenAI's semiconductor supply chainSemiconductor supply chains are hard, but Samsung offers OpenAI relief in many forms spanning compute and memory\n- \nAI+ML #### Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlasSee, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad\n- \nAI and ML #### Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chipsMulti-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute\n- \nOn-PREM #### AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pocketsAI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk\n- \nai and ml #### Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note\n\n### [Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n- \nSecurity #### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n- \nSecurity #### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n- \nBlack Hat and DEF CON #### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n- \nSecurity #### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n- \nMalware Month #### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n### [FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n- \n#### Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push\n- \n#### Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander LinuxDebian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin\n- \n#### Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channelsThe Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next\n- \n#### Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000sThe FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot\n- \n#### Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fastA real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone\n- \n#### Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15Exeunt zVault stage right; enter FreeCORE and BSDnas", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/switzerland-tests-a-foss-escape-route-from-microsoft-365", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/09/switzerland-tests-a-foss-escape-route-from-microsoft-365/5294878", "published_at": "2026-09-09 09:01:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-09 20:44:58.448160+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy"], "entities": ["Switzerland", "Microsoft 365", "Swiss Army"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/switzerland-tests-a-foss-escape-route-from-microsoft-365", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/switzerland-tests-a-foss-escape-route-from-microsoft-365.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/switzerland-tests-a-foss-escape-route-from-microsoft-365.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/switzerland-tests-a-foss-escape-route-from-microsoft-365.jsonld"}}