Dutch tax authorities cancel Microsoft 365 cloud rollout – and turn toward open source
ZDNET’s key takeaways
- The Netherlands stopped a government agency’s shift to Microsoft 365.
- The drive toward an open-source, digital sovereignty approach continues.
- What the Netherlands will move to next is quite vague.
The Netherlands’ Tax and Customs Administration has abandoned its planned Microsoft 365 public-cloud rollout.
Why? The reasons were clear at the Open Source Summit Europe conference, where the Linux Foundation (LF) released the 2026 State of Open Source in Europe. In it, the nonprofit, pro-open-source organization revealed that 94% of European Union (EU) organizations say digital sovereignty is important, with 61% considering it very important. As Thierry Carrez, the Linux Foundation Europe GM, said in his keynote, “Europe has clearly heard the message on digital sovereignty.”
The Netherlands isn’t alone
It’s not just the Dutch tax collectors, though. The Netherlands is also exploringswitching from Windows and proprietary software to Linux and open-source programs across the...
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