Probably the only good outcome of the second Trump admin is countries moving off of USA tech. I'm here for it.
Hopefully it goes all the way & we have a closer to democratic or Political Left at least 2-Internet Markets of Things
This has been part of one of my long time problems with The EU, I cannot be more hopeful, that finally EU will not have to just regulate & punish a lot The USA corporate Tech businesses!
Many are debating which software to use. I don't care. So long as it isn't MicroSlop or Apple or similar. It is the first big hammer strike to break up that dependency for the majority of users
Teams shouldn't even exist as it's so bad, so so bad. Zoom is fine-ish....
The crazy thing is the apps are just browsers (edge for web, electron for app) and it still sucks. And the open source bits work well, but anywhere theres closed source (onedrive) it all goes to shit.
OMG make OneDrive not a thing please.
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Microsoft has helped to increase Linux market share once again.
Once again is not accurate. The surge is unlike anything before. It's pretty incredible and that speaks to how badly they have fucked up. There was an article about how they are reevaluating their AI stuffs. Whether that's true or not, I don't know, but that it could be plausible says a lot.
President Shades Strikes Back.
at the same time the government office in Germany where I work just switched completely to ZoomX. "but the servers are in Germany"...
You have to understand them, they need to ensure steady flow of donations from big businesses to political parties.
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