Ah yes because they fear losing the ability to charge annual and monthly subscriptions for their spyware. And no MSFT for the 30th time I don’t want to try Copilot just like I didn’t want to deal with that ho Cortana you pimped out before.
Clippy, did they not learn their lesson in 95?
They are clueless, aren’t they?
“Oh no, we did our job so incredibly terribly that people are trying new things! And sticking with them! Quick, let’s use our wealth to crush the competition!”
That’s capitalism for you baby
Thats a perfectly valid and logical strategy for a business…
I’m more mad that our politicians fall for it and allow an anti-competitve environment, >:(
Oh they didn’t fall for it. They personally received perks, I’m convinced.
In my country we call them bribes.
They’re directly lobbying the government on a massive scale. They’re looking for every opportunity to force their software on people buying any computer, like they always have. They’re looking for every technical trick to screw the competition, and to extract more from their customers. Where it’s possible (i.e. not LibreOffice) they’re buying up any company that does threaten to successfully compete with them. They bought half the video game industry for example. They’re buying their way into all the schools so kids grow up knowing nothing but the Microsoft life.
I mean what else would they do? It’s Microsoft.
Excel is a wonderful piece of technology, the full capacity of which I don’t even come close to fully utilizing. I can appreciate that as a piece of art, but I can also get everything I need done in libreoffice calc and then I don’t have to support and rely on microsoft.
I’ve worked at some banks quite a few years ago and Excel was basically a cheap application space for them. The cells were inputs/outputs, they used VBA, and COM+ which talked to SQL to perform calculations and all that. It was really weird but every iteration that they wrote to replace Excel (they needed to because of banking auditing regulations) had failed simply due to the features they would get from it. It was wild to see at the time.
I did some pretty amazing things with Excel and VBA in the day.
Or OnlyOffice, but there are problematic elements. Then again, what doesn’t have that these days?
Hit them with an anti-trust suit!
Hit them with an anti-trust suit!
Again
Anutha one!
Chromebooks are taking over Windows PCs in public schools these days. I was only taught how to use Windows PCs when I was a kid in school, though. 90s/00s.
Yeah. Not exactly an improvement, is it.
Arguably worse. Google does all kinds of sneaky things. Kids end up learning software without file management skills (like at all). This makes it very difficult to leave their apps and if they do it’ll be to to 365, maybe iCloud, not libreoffice.
Speaking of video games. I heard they were closing down ID Software, among other studios.
This is the part where you find out if your government officials even know what Linux and Libre are.
They don’t.
That’s like in that dinosaur movie, right? This is a linux system! Ha ha
It was Unix, but close enough. I doubt most government officials know the difference
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🤓 Its the interwebs you have to be clear these days with all the rewriting of history the US is trying to do.
There’s only so much overexplainong of jokes I can do before I start getting nosebleeds.
Its a hereditary condition.
As a matter of national security we need to move our digital services to Canadian platforms, or platforms other than Microsoft.
Canadian is good. Open-source would be better.
Microsoft made sure the definition of a “Canadian company” is based on the number of employees in Canada so they qualify for those contracts. No joke. I want to RFP something besides PowerBI and all the little open source shops don’t qualify. Microsoft does.
Yes, yes, and yes. Microslop has shown they will “accidentally” leak stuff if you threaten to move so governments should move.
As they realized in Europe, Microsoft will turn data over to the US govt if requested, so using it on sensitive systems should be seen as a bigger security threat than some video app.
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I hope our officials are taking notice what Europeans are doing.
Narrator: They didn’t notice.
I used to love windows. Lots of good games played on it. AOL. Fun other little programs.
They’ve really taken the soul out of it over the last decade or so. Not sure if it’s the CEO or upper management but I main Linux now and I doubt I’d go back even if they improved their base OS.
Yes Microslop keep showing me your despair, bleed it out as much as you can and show everyone that you are a parasite we don’t need, dew it!
It’s alarming what they are lobbying about. But is there an indication in the page specific to Linux or LibreOffice?
While I don’t doubt their lobbying includes anti-Linux themes, there was no specific info in OP’s link. It looks like they are spamming every branch of government with corporate crap at all times.
One of them is just called Bigot?? Figures
