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Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service (www.ghacks.net)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] Yoz 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

There's no other company with all the required certification that can replace Microsoft office suite so all corporations are stuck with it and tbh nobody cares.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Perhaps nobody in the US or in jobs with non-sensitive data cares about that. In the EU this could backfire hard against Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

This aint 365. This is a standalone thing.

[–] LemmyIsFantastic -3 points 11 months ago

There are plenty of other services that have the compliance check boxes. Most of them are garbage, expensive, and don't come with 5% of the other tools that MS does.

There is a choice, and companies choose ms because it is best.