"The International Criminal Court (ICC) is ditching Microsoft Office for a European software alternative amid mounting fears about being reliant on US technology. The ICC will switch from Microsoft's productivity wares to openDesk, an open source office and collaboration suite provided by the Center for Digital Sovereignty ( ZenDiS) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior. The ICC confirmed the migration The Register, but a spokesperson declined to comment further."
"President Trump signed an executive order in February to sanction ICC officials over arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu connected to alleged war crimes in Gaza. ICC's Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan reportedly lost access to his Microsoft email account. Microsoft President Brad Smith denied the company had done this, telling reporters "at no point did Microsoft cease or suspend its services to the ICC.""
"While concerns over US tech might be growing, efforts to find alternatives to Microsoft isn't new. The German city of Munich famously decided to go open source many years ago, adopting Linux on its PCs and servers and LibreOffice instead of Microsoft Office, although it reverted to Windows in 2020. More recently, the German state of Schleswig-Holstein last year went public on a project to dump Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice and completed the migration of 40,000 accounts this month."
The International Criminal Court will replace Microsoft Office with openDesk, an open-source office and collaboration suite supplied by the Center for Digital Sovereignty (ZenDiS) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior. The ICC confirmed the migration, and a spokesperson declined to comment further. The move responds to European unease about dependence on American technology after punitive measures by the Trump administration, including an executive order to sanction ICC officials. ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan reportedly lost access to his Microsoft email account, which Microsoft denies. Historic German open-source migrations and recent outages at AWS and Azure have intensified data sovereignty concerns under the US Cloud Act.
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