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This 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://
by johnea 3y ago
This 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...
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