Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers
Switzerland's Federal Chancellery launched a pilot replacing Microsoft 365 with open-source openDesk on 3,000 federal workstations by end of 2027.
Switzerland launched a CHF 9 million pilot to migrate 3,000 federal workstations (about 7% of the federal workforce) from Microsoft 365 to the German open-source openDesk suite, targeting completion by end of 2027. The move follows a successful 172-employee proof of concept (PoC BOSS) and the 2024 EMBAG open-source law, driven by digital sovereignty concerns about foreign access to Swiss government data. The Swiss Army's Cyber Command plans a faster migration, replacing Microsoft 365 with openDesk by October 2026, while Microsoft is investing over CHF 325 million in Swiss AI and cloud infrastructure.
- Pilot covers 3,000 workstations, roughly 7% of the federal workforce
- CHF 9 million investment; full migration targeted by end of 2027
- Military Cyber Command to replace Microsoft 365 by October 2026
- EMBAG law and digital sovereignty policy drive the shift away from US vendors
- Vendors
- Microsoft
- Products
- openDeskMicrosoft 365
- Organizations
- Swiss Federal ChancellerySwiss Armed Forces
- Countries
- Switzerland
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Switzerland's federal government has launched a pilot program to replace Microsoft 365 with open source alternatives across 3,000 workstations. That's about 7% of the federal workforce. The target is to complete the migration by end of 2027.
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