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'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft (us.afpnews.com)

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At a time of growing concern over the power of the world's mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant Microsoft.

In less than three months' time, almost no civil servant, police officer or judge in Schleswig-Holstein will be using any of Microsoft's ubiquitous programs at work.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

hadn’t been held back by lazy MS et al.

MS is not lazy but working hard to maintain their lead.

edit: Just noticed that my phrasing is bad and could be seen as praise. OP is right, MS is holding everybody back.

I meant to say that they abuse their market domination to maintain their lead.

Look at MS Teams. It was free until Slack was done as a competitor.

MS did things but that's inevitable. The crucial part are the things that they prevented.

It's increadible that OP is even downvoted.

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