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Danish cities drop Microsoft over Trump policies and financial concerns
The city governments in Denmark’s two largest cities Copenhagen and Aarhus both say they have decided to phase out Microsoft as a provider of various IT systems.
Copenhagen Municipality said that due to financial considerations, concerns over dependency on a near-monopoly, and the geopolitical climate under US president Donald Trump, it had decided to phase out Microsoft as a main IT supplier. “If, theoretically, relations with the US were to deteriorate, you could be concerned that Microsoft would be forced to shut everything down,” elected official Henrik Appel Espersen, chair of the city’s audit committee, told newspaper Politiken. Both cities have relied heavily on Microsoft Office programmes and the company’s cloud services, according to Politiken.
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