Why the US government’s overreliance on Microsoft is a big problem
Why the US government’s overreliance on Microsoft is a big problem
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Why the US government’s overreliance on Microsoft is a big problem
Microsoft continues to get a free pass after series of cybersecurity failures.
The world's over reliance on Microsoft is a big problem. That's why they can make deeply unpopular changes to their OS/browser/office program and most companies and governments and users just accept it...
The issue is not so much Microsoft, but governments using taxpayers money for proprietary solutions in general.
Public Money, Public Code is the solution.
Is it just me or does the world at least appear to be going more open source? Take a look at social media, for example. We had MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter. And now, while those still exist, we also have the choice of Mastodon, Lemmy, Nostr, BlueSky, etc. To the best of my knowledge, all of these are open source. Linux has taken 4% of (an admittedly shrinking) desktop market, Something like 70% of smartphone users are on Android. Which, while definitely not mostly open source, is open source at its very base (AOSP). From what I heard, you can now open ODF files in Microsoft Office, which implies that it is big enough that Microsoft feels they must add it, at least for compatibility.