European alternatives to Google Workspace and Microsoft Office 365

Your email, calendar, files, and documents are the operating system of your working life. The question worth asking is simple: who holds the keys, and can you take them back whenever you want?

With Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, your data lives on US infrastructure under US jurisdiction, and there are no open standards that make leaving clean. That lock-in is the real cost, and most people only notice it the day they try to move.

Europe has built a genuine answer. Not a single app, but a full sovereign workspace: mail, calendar, files, real-time docs, chat, and video, on infrastructure you or a European provider controls, in open formats you can always export.

Start with the cloud workspaces below if you want a true Microsoft 365 or Workspace replacement. Drop to the desktop suites if all you need is to open, edit, and own your documents.