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That's what whole Europe should do already years ago because considering all the data mining Microsoft conducts in their products it become quite dangerous to u
by pndy 3y ago
That's what whole Europe should do already years ago because considering all the data mining Microsoft conducts in their products it become quite dangerous to use anything they released in nearly a decade.
In 2015 Munich reverted their decision from 2004 about migrating to Linux (they opted for an Ubuntu derivative) and OpenOffice [1][2], so let's hope that the Schleswig-Holstein government will stick to open source solutions this time for good and that will become a trend worth following.
[1] - https://onmsft.com/news/german-city-that-ditched-windows-for-linux-wants-to-go-back-to-windows/ https://onmsft.com/news/german-city-that-ditched-windows-for...
[2] - https://web.archive.org/web/20150821225906/https://www.techrepublic.com/article/calls-for-city-that-ditched-microsoft-for-linux-to-return-to-windows/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150821225906/https://www.techr...
- netsharc 3y agoThe first article seems to be very pro-Microsoft and doesn't mention how Ballmer lobbied Munich hard to return to the Microsoft system, including offering steep discounts and promising to open an MS headquarter in Munich. I wonder how nice the dinner the 2 mentioned politicians got. This site admittedly looks like a conspiracy site, but it says onmsft.com is a bogus site: https://techwrongs.org/o/2015/08/24/sabine-pfeiler-and-otto-seidl/ https://techwrongs.org/o/2015/08/24/sabine-pfeiler-and-otto-...
- pndy 3y agoI do remember this story about Munich going for open source and then switching back but I don't recall any side story about MS lobbying for opening headquarter in the city or offering discounts. That's what brave search served me when I enter the keywords so excuse me for choosing the source - sadly, the sites that do PR for the companies pretending to serve news, leaks, reviews are all around us. And honestly, it's not really surprising that MS lobbied - they managed to do the same in Poland too many times in the past. My sister starting computer classes in the high school was given a pamphlet with instruction how to register an account in (back then) Windows Live ecosystem, how to use mail and create a blog there, and how great SkyDrive is for storing your files.
- johnea 3y agoThis is also related to M$ providing windoze source to China, in order for china to be able to implement their own encryption (allowing gov backdoor). https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/china-to-view-windows-code/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/china-to-view-window... In addition ot governments' concern for security, I'm am amazed that corps happily use s/w tools that routinely exfiltrate data. This includes gmail, outlook, teams, ST's CubeIDE, cloud storage and many many more. If you were a company that was a majotr competitor to M$, would you be OK hosting your executive strategy meetings on a M$ or Goggle meeting platform? When the EULA says they can mine your meeting? And offering these tools in schools (where "free" licenses are provided) only locks the next generation of users, including s/w engineering students, into the M$ platform. It's basically tax payer funded M$ training. I'm shocked (shocked I say) at the number of young s/w engineers I work with who are hopeless outside of a windows desktop. As you mention, I also certainly hope that the current conversion away from M$ will sustain, and influence other agencies and companies to migrate away...
- ripjaygn 3y agohttps://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22/m https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22/m