This is an insightful point that those who push for austerity measures and privatisation always seem to miss.

A government saves money if it pays €x to employ local taxpayers instead of sending that same amount abroad. It will still break even on the decision if it employs locals for €x+n, where n is the amount they recoup in tax from those locals. Even more if those locals would otherwise be unemployed.

Government gets its money by siphoning it out of the local economy, making that capital unavailable for private use while creating nothing of value. Government jobs are a net drain on an economy.

This. Even if a great deal of the savings from cutting MS fees is forwarded to training the current/new tech support it's still a win.