You sound like an insufferable douche... AI can do art ergo artists are not important. In your example the mail girl can't be replaced by AI therefore she must be important; yet you did nothing except define her lack of value...Your invective about your employees says more about you as a leader than them.

That is not for lack of trying.

In the 90s I don't know anyone who thought Windows 95 was the best OS. Was it better than Win 3.0, 3.1 and 3.11. Yes it had a graphic interface. But Win 98se had USB support and windows drivers model. Win ME was a bloated mess but that was in Sept 2000. The best you can say about win 95 was that it was their best release to date coming from the 16 bit cli era.

I did a little digging to help my memory. Munich had done this in 2004 and then returned to MS in 2017. This is in Schleswig-Holstein.

If you are using teams as a video meeting service only yes it is easy to leave. If you are using it as a slack replacement then many conversations and workflows and sharing of files etc. can become very difficult to replace. It isn't as easy as migrating a standard mailbox from outlook to another email solution.

I feel like I have been reading the same article about German Government offices leaving Microsoft software since about 2003 if not the early 90s. Did they leave and come back and break up again or is this a 20 year move? I do see articles from 92 stating Germany was going to leave Microsoft applications. This is likely a renegotiation tactic.

The US didn't react well when the USSR big brothered Cuba. Why did they think pushing NATO on Russia's neighboring countries would be accepted? A CIA report after the collapse of the Soviet Union made it clear that pushing NATO on the neighboring countries would provoke hostility. We wouldn't accept this on our own borders, why should Russia?

Was a replacement Dell significantly cheaper than a replacement Macbook?

Nobody is saying that only Apple pulls this crap. They are however, stating that Apple or anyone doing this is highly motivated by greed.

I think production should come back to the US and we should pay more until we can be competitive again.

I am pro tax cuts, and i think we should have a balanced budget.

You're quite the illiterate if you think that is what my comment implied. Read the chicken little fear mongering post that I replied to, claiming that the US cutting research dollars meant this would go unresearched and that it was a virtuous circle of decline caused by US budget cuts. US budget cuts will not meaningfully change research in to the ocean 'darkening' that the OG poster was stating.

There is an entire planet that can fund research into this. It does not have to be solely on the back of the American taxpayer to fund everything on the planet.

Being a man of my word, I am impressed by Proton. Lets hope others follow suit.

If any company actually passes these savings on to the consumer I will be impressed.