Sick of Microsoft and Google? This new European office suite is a private, open-source alternative - ZDNET

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Built on open-source software, this European cloud office suite aims to keep your data out of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Digital sovereignty in Europe is taking another step forward. Office.eu has officially launched in The Hague. This new cloud service is positioning itself as a fully European, open‑source‑based alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. The service promises digital sovereignty, strict compliance with European Union (EU) law, and a familiar cloud‑office experience for organizations wary of US platforms. Also: How digitally sovereign is your organization? This Red Hat tool can tell you in minutes The new service is operated entirely by European owners and runs solely on EU-based infrastructure and data centers. This design, the company argues, keeps customer data “under European jurisdiction” and insulated from foreign legal regimes, such as the US CLOUD Act. By tying its technical and corporate structure to European territory, the company is directly tapping into long‑running