He's also Canadian :(

Nortel moved to North Carolina then slowly went to shit.

RIM could not get their shit together to develop an OS to support apps. Then went to shit and now makes software for refrigerators.

RIM: fell to Apple marketing and Samsung sleek fragility. Their last phone introduced features google and Apple are still creeping out some 15 years on.

Nortel: Fell to Harper's desire to make Canada a US colony as well as the CPC bot doing anything to stop the CCP from stealing everything the company had. In particular, Nortel developed 5G tech that China then "premiered"

Seriously there was once a plethora of sats available and it seems like the whole approach dried up.

As with most of our successful industries, they don't get any grease since they always seem to be working properly and cheerfully printing out money. Meanwhile we're busy chasing all the other squealing gears in our economy instead of focusing on what currently works, and we don't feel like it needs our attention. So we let our attention drift (or be directed) elsewhere, while thieves, saboteurs and vulture capitalists around the world quietly dismantle it and part it out, leaving an empty shell that looks like it's still working but it's all an illusion projected from afar and there's nothing left inside. It's all gone. Then it collapses, and we assume it must've been a scam all along, and tell ourselves we were just deluding ourselves that we could ever actually compete on the world stage, and we tell ourselves that being the world's 10th largest economy, depending how you count, is just because we sell off all our resources and we've really got nothing else to offer the world.

And it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, as we are then unable to provide high-skilled jobs for our well-educated workforce, and they leave to seek jobs in the places that gutted our industries in the first place, pretending it's just the "free market". Free to knife and murder the competition, yes, that kind of free.

Sounds funny in French Canadian though. Testes Link.

Reminds me of the E-tron, which means turd in French.

The government uses Microsoft Surface tablets running Microsoft Windows. They send Microsoft Word documents to each other in Microsoft Outlook through a Microsoft Exchange server, which then gets uploaded to Microsoft OneDrive to be shared with their department on Microsoft SharePoint. Then message each other over Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft owns the Canadian government.

I mean it might be hard for individuals but something the size of the Canadian government it shouldn't be an issue.

Amen

Not so sure... AFAIK, the government's email works, right now... Wouldn't want another Phoenix-style fiasco right now.

I get why it should be done, I just don't trust the way government IT projects are run these days.

It really isn't that hard, especially if you're going to pay someone a full-time salary to do it. I have self-hosted my whole email stack for like 20 years and nobody pays me shit. Granted it's aggravating, thankless, and relentlessly under attack. It can't be done with a typical home connection, and the process of properly configuring and securing it can mean dodging several large foot-guns (and some smaller, sneakier ones), but they're well-known and well-documented and there are even testers for almost all of them. I don't really recommend hosting your own mail server. It often feels like it's not really worth it (it probably isn't) but it's isn't hard per-se, particularly not for a corporation or institution, it's just rather obnoxious.

Don’t worry Mark Carney will let him do as he pleases. Conservatives always support fascists.