| ▲ | ntoskrnl_exe 4 hours ago | |
You seem to ignore the fact that changes take time. There are entire governments in the EU with workflows built around Microsoft products that have no real 1:1 alternatives. If a governmental procedure stipulates that a ministry uses Windows w/ Office365, it uses Windows w/ Office365, no room for an argument. If anybody pulls a plug here, the consequences will be unimaginable. It's nice that a single German state has switched to LibreOffice, but the rest of Germany, or the remaining 26 countries might take years, if not decades, to certify and permit someone else's solution. | ||
| ▲ | microtonal 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
If the plug is fully pulled, the EU could confiscate some European Azure/Office365 servers and 'put the software on the market'. Windows is even easier, I'm sure in such a situation the EU would be happy to limit the restrictions on reverse engineering to block license verification. I'm sure that there are some hard drives on European territory with the full Windows source code as well. | ||
| ▲ | givinguflac 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
France would like a word: https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/france-has-ditch... | ||