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ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk
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Re: ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk
#22I think the bigger question is why they were using microsoft products in the first place. USA has been very hostile to the ICC under trump, but its not exactly a huge shift, bush was also incredibly hostile. It seems borderline incompetent to use a microsoft cloud offering given the political situation. Not to mention given the type of work they do, seems like hosting stuff off site at all is a bad plan.
USA has been very hostile to the ICC since way before Trump. The ICC was created in 1998 when Bill Clinton was president of the USA. He never ratified the Rome treaty. And then GW, Obama, Trump and Biden didn't either. Very few americans batted an eye as far as I could tell. Your are after all by definition exceptional. (/s)
No one thought the US would get this insane.
Re: ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk
#23It's actually not called Microsoft 365, but "the Microsoft 365 Copilot app" (not to be confused with Microsoft Copilot (a slop generator with the same logo))
Re: ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk
#24Does someone have an English language link for this? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/31/international_crimina... ("International Criminal Court kicks Microsoft Office to the curb / "Rough justice? Redmond out as Germany's openDesk judged a better fit" (Oct. 31))
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#25Does someone have an English language link for this? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/31/international_crimina...
(was submitted to HN 3 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45797515)
Re: ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk
#26I can't see any links to repos on the website, is it actually open? https://www.opendesk.eu
Thanks for the link, looks like they offer the whole stack of features and more.
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#27Looks like openDesk uses Collabora Online, which is itself based on libreoffice online - web based libreoffice.
https://www.opendesk.eu/en/product#document-management ("Collabora Online powers openDesk with a robust office suite designed for efficient teamwork and secure document editing.")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collabora_Online ("Collabora Online (often abbreviated as COOL) is an open-source online office suite developed by Collabora, based on LibreOffice Online, the web-based edition of the LibreOffice office suite.")
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#28Open Desk (since the article doesn't link): https://www.opendesk.eu/en Does anyone have any experience using it?
I’d love to see pictures. I’d love to drop MS/Google docs for something I can control myself.
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#29After Microsoft left politics mess up with their customer base something like that was to be expected.
Microsoft has to follow US sanctions, even if they are misplaced. This isn't a choice on Microsoft's part here. The ICC was applauded in the US in the when it went after Russia but when it goes after Israel it is sanctioned. It unfortunately hard to be impartial, like the ICC is, when it comes to international war crimes. The big players want you to play towards their favourites and only hold their enemies accountabl…
MS could always refocus themselves as a global company (in the legal rather than marketing-only sense), and move their HQ out of the US, then there could be no Trump tantrums affecting other countries, the worse that could happen would be some sanctions on what would then be their in-country US affiliate, with no ability to affect their other global operations whatsoever. Why haven't they followed this approach? Haven't lost enough customers yet?
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
USA has been very hostile to the ICC since way before Trump. The ICC was created in 1998 when Bill Clinton was president of the USA. He never ratified the Rome treaty. And then GW, Obama, Trump and Biden didn't either. Very few americans batted an eye as far as I could tell. Your are after all by definition exceptional. (/s)
No one thought the US would get this insane.
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