Who remember the failed experiment of abandoning Micro$oft by Munich https://www-sueddeutsche-de.translate.goog/muenchen/muenchne...
I don't. But I remember that the French also just did the same.
Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
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Re: Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
#22> Copenhagen and Aarhus, which previously announced plans to abandon Microsoft software, citing financial concerns, market dominance and political tensions with Washington.
That's not going to happen, their infrastructure is completely tied to Microsoft Active Directory, it's going to be incredibly expensive to just plan a migration out of that. Trump will be out of office before anything serious can even get startet, and depending on the next US administration, someone will decide that it's not worth the spending.
Plus you'd need to re-train and army of Windows administrators to run, what... Linux and OpenLDAP?
Re: Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
#23Who remember the failed experiment of abandoning Micro$oft by Munich https://www-sueddeutsche-de.translate.goog/muenchen/muenchne...
It failed because of MS pushback and lobbying. As was reported countless times.
Re: Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
#24Who remember the failed experiment of abandoning Micro$oft by Munich https://www-sueddeutsche-de.translate.goog/muenchen/muenchne...
failed due to corrupt government official and M$ bribes
Re: Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
#25How could any European govt use MS after Trump ordered MS to sanction an ICC prosecutor and MS complied? I imagine they're all trying to walk away
The big problem, and I say this as someone that appreciates some of the Microsoft technologies, is that it is always first and foremost about Office, and nothing else.
Forgotten are Windows, XBox, DirectX, VC++, C#, F#, TypeScript, Github, VSCode, Azure, Teams, SQL Server, SharePoint, Dynamics,....
Ah but some of those are FOSS, they are, pity that most money and project steering only flows from one place.
Repeat the same listing exercise for every US big tech company and their influence on the computing industry at large, and possible geopolitcs, that is how we end up with HarmonyOS NEXT with ArkTS.
Re: Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
#26And meanwhile the exact same agency spits out government Android apps that use Play Integrity so citizens cannot ditch Google for GrapheneOS. This is symbolism, the minister does not actually care about digital sovereignty for the citizens.
> This is symbolism
I don't think so. It's more complicated than that. The state is not a monolith. Different heads are doing different things and it's a enormous bureaucracy. The divisions pumping out Android will eventually catch up to what's going on and the vulnerability they're exposing themselves to. These things take time. It doesn't all happen at once. People (who are not very technical, barely knowing what a computer is) need to understand what's going on and that can take a while. Let's just hope they figure it out before it matters.
Re: Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
#27Who remember the failed experiment of abandoning Micro$oft by Munich https://www-sueddeutsche-de.translate.goog/muenchen/muenchne...
Microsoft came back with a far lower cost offer than they had before, and took the new head out for nice lunches
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#29Who remember the failed experiment of abandoning Micro$oft by Munich https://www-sueddeutsche-de.translate.goog/muenchen/muenchne...
It should be acknowledged that this was at least significantly about lobbying, and shouldn't be considered a cut-and-dry "failed experiment" (though clearly there are lessons that can be learned):
> [Munich Mayor] Reiter wanted Microsoft to move its Microsoft Germany corporate headquarters to to Munich. Microsoft moved and Reiter wants to deliver on his promise to make Munich a Windows-powered city.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-munich-should-stick-with-l...
Re: Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
#30The entire American software industry will feel the ramifications here. Gotta stay polite for HN. No data stored on an American server is secure. I really really do like Open Suse though, and I think an open source future is possible. Open Suse, Libre Office, etc.
I love these posts that are so on the edge that I can't tell if it's sarcastic or for real :)
The perception in the rest of the world is that America has gone completely off the rails and could do almost literally anything at any time. I don't think this comment is that strange.