We have government wide standards, they standardize on Microsoft's proprietary non-standard products. Microsoft built this mess for profit, and continue to pro

We have government wide standards, they standardize on Microsoft's proprietary non-standard products. Microsoft built this mess for profit, and continue to profit off of taxpayers indefinitely as hobbled state institutions are forced to pay permanent support contracts for old OSes because the states themselves mandated they use this shit by law. I'd love to see how many campaign contributions MS made to representatives pushing laws standardizing on Word or other bullshit MS only tech in state institutions and even worse, in schools. Public education is infested with Microsoft giving away / heavily subsidizing their locked in products so children are hooked on them for life, and nobody is outraged about it. Hell, the whole war for the classroom from all parties involved is disgusting. Microsoft, Apple, and Google all push free access to their proprietary services and products to lock kids into their ecosystems. And while Google's platform, Chromebooks, are much more open than their competitors, they offset that by also having the ulterior motive of farming these kids for their big data research (not to say MS and Apple aren't doing it too, just saying Google is far from innocent here). The whole intersection of state and software globally is a giant mess of corruption. There is way too much profit to be made off taxpayers money for anything close to good intentions to win the day.