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Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening & why it could fail.
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They try this every 5 years or so. Microsoft gives them some short term discounts and they come running back back.
It's different this time around.
The previous attempts were about freeing themselves from an abusive unprincipled data-hungry big data monopoly,
This attempt is about freeing themselves from an abusive unprincipled data-hungry big data monopoly operating in a fascist country and in cahoots with the regime.
I reckon it's serious this time.
I'm putting my money on the EU becoming just as openly Fascistic as the US and sticking with Microsoft.
The Fallout:London timeline was not on my bingo card, not gonna lie. We're speedrunning Fallout politically here in the US, though.