The move away from MS crap. Not for the reason I expected, but still.
The fatal mistake that Microsoft made was disable the email of the chief prosecutor at the International Court of Law. At that point, it became blatantly obvious and impossible to ignore that MS will do whatever the US administration wants to its international (and probably national) customers. The EU administration observed this event very carefully and drew its conclusions. Obviously, this will be a process over the next 5-10 years or so
What did it take to destroy Microsoft? Corpocracy + fascism + consistently bad US foreign policy. Sort of a perfect storm that turns what probably seemed like a sweet deal for the big tech companies into a nightmare scenario of break up. I bet they wish they still had Biden and the Dems in power, that let corporate interests run much of the government as long as they had diversity policies.
I'd amazing that people are pitching the creation and integration of a Teams alternative as some mammoth task that only Microsoft can pull off, and attempts by anyone to compete will fail.
You should keep in mind the fact that the US is not the sole source of IT expertise on earth, and the EU is more than capable of taking them on. The EU has the ability to pass legislation that can compel Microsoft to co-operate, and access to the necessary skillset is certainly available. The world has seen how broken
Most users are not very savvy, especially around new software.
That didn't stop people using Teams, a program that not only was rolled out to everyone with virtually no information beyond a few popup tooltips or training, but a program that drastically differed from the norms of other software (like no multi window support).
Where do you imagine the literal millions of dollars it would take will come from?
Asked Gemini to come up with some numbers: - Cost of the MS Teams add-on (ignoring the base license): 5€ per user per month - Estimated number of public sector employees in the EU: 35 million
That gives you over 2 billion € to spend every year. Seems doable.
The move away from MS crap. Not for the reason I expected, but still.
The fatal mistake that Microsoft made was disable the email of the chief prosecutor at the International Court of Law. At that point, it became blatantly obvious and impossible to ignore that MS will do whatever the US administration wants to its international (and probably national) customers. The EU administration observed this event very carefully and drew its conclusions. Obviously, this will be a process over the next 5-10 years or so
What did it take to destroy Microsoft?
Corpocracy + fascism + consistently bad US foreign policy.
Sort of a perfect storm that turns what probably seemed like a sweet deal for the big tech companies into a nightmare scenario of break up. I bet they wish they still had Biden and the Dems in power, that let corporate interests run much of the government as long as they had diversity policies.
Most users are not very savvy, especially around new software.
That didn't stop people using Teams, a program that not only was rolled out to everyone with virtually no information beyond a few popup tooltips or training, but a program that drastically differed from the norms of other software (like no multi window support).
The users will be fine.
Where do you imagine the literal millions of dollars it would take will come from?
Asked Gemini to come up with some numbers:
- Cost of the MS Teams add-on (ignoring the base license): 5€ per user per month
- Estimated number of public sector employees in the EU: 35 million
That gives you over 2 billion € to spend every year. Seems doable.