Many state and public administrations from Helsinki to Lisbon operate with the software of the US corporation. It makes them vulnerable for hackers and spies, violates European public procurement l...
Valid points…as for the user itself, they’d adapt. They’d moan and struggle, but who cares. They still get paid and it’s for the greater good.
And yeah, the EU should really do their own OS. But OK, replacing win is simple, replacing their servers/ad ain’t. They do excel, hard to deny that.
I got every MS-cert under the roof, so I know their shit (not a fanboy tho).
Still, my initial argument stands. They might be horrible and #1 in volume. But don’t forget google or cloudflare. You’d still be using those, even if you completely ditch MS. And you might not even know.
I wasn’t even speaking of googles office-stuff, but their grip on everything internet. Is there even one single site left that isn’t reliant on tons of stupid “free” google-scripts, -fonts, -captchas and whatnot?
It’s the whole body-cancer of the internet. Cloudflare is “just” a very nasty zit.
Valid points…as for the user itself, they’d adapt. They’d moan and struggle, but who cares. They still get paid and it’s for the greater good.
And yeah, the EU should really do their own OS. But OK, replacing win is simple, replacing their servers/ad ain’t. They do excel, hard to deny that. I got every MS-cert under the roof, so I know their shit (not a fanboy tho).
Still, my initial argument stands. They might be horrible and #1 in volume. But don’t forget google or cloudflare. You’d still be using those, even if you completely ditch MS. And you might not even know.
i think that’s very valid re cloudflare… i’d probably consider them “core internet infrastructure” at this point unfortunately
same with google: gsuite is just too easy and has a load of data (same arguments as o365)
I wasn’t even speaking of googles office-stuff, but their grip on everything internet. Is there even one single site left that isn’t reliant on tons of stupid “free” google-scripts, -fonts, -captchas and whatnot? It’s the whole body-cancer of the internet. Cloudflare is “just” a very nasty zit.