It really irks me that the UK government seems to be highly wedded to Microsoft and its technology stack. Every public-sector service is increasingly being push

It really irks me that the UK government seems to be highly wedded to Microsoft and its technology stack. Every public-sector service is increasingly being pushed towards it; for example, I recently completed a FOI request that showed most of the UK's ~150 universities each pay almost exactly ~£1m per annum to them. Whilst undoubtedly a lot of that does buy a lot of different services, I wish the UK IT people would develop their own in-house capability to do things competently -- something they quietly have a reputation for -- and not outsource everything to a large US multinational corporation that stamps firmly on competition.