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Re:Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech indepen... by Mossy9 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @07:21AM (#43856220)
First order of business should be to detach the governments from Microsoft. Probably the hardest part of this whole tangle is that the governing bodies are so bound to MS that any move can hit back twice as hard. It's easier to legislate the consumer side, since it's not directly affecting the efficiency and budgets of the organizations making the legislation.

Thankfully, it seems that a movement from inside governments is really starting, with more and more project funding demanding e.g. avoiding vendor lock-in. This helped push one of my projects from MSSQL to Postgres. One step at a time...

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Re:Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech indepen... by cruzcampo on Thursday May 01, 2025 @07:23AM (#43856237)
Are there any specific Microsoft products you would prioritize?

I'd envision building a plug-in replacement to facilitate switching.

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Re:Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech indepen... by Mossy9 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @07:31AM (#43856291)
That's a tricky one. From my bubble, the first thing I would to is to stop digging the hole any deeper - stopping any ongoing Azure (and other US cloud migrations), not buying into new products such as MS Fabric etc.

But what really would rock the boat would be a MS 365 competitor, since that's currently suffocating everything, because everything is included: email, files, office suite, chat... None of these have to be the Same Product (and I'd prefer specialization), but the integration between different apps should be painless. So, protocols.

If nation states could onshore that package, it would even out the playing field for the other, more optional applications

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Re:Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech indepen... by prmoustache on Thursday May 01, 2025 @08:32AM (#43856839)
I think what makes Microsoft so hard to challenge is not one product but the fact they have a tightly integrated ecosystem. Everything is coupled with the Active Directory, Azure and Office365. By themselves these components aren't irreplaceable but no company has ever been able to offer as wide a range of products.
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