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For most businesses, the cost and difficulty of shifting away from Microsoft outweigh the benefits
Some things go deep, true. However most businesses don't use most of Microsoft products - even the ones that do, the usage of the more complicated products is far more minuscule than imagined by e.g. CFOs, etc.
The real thing keeping many "in the fold" as it were would be authentication services.
Which are overcomplicated and probably easier to manage without...
Fundamentally it’s hard to pushback against an authoritarian government. There is very little to stop Trump from sending Doge into MS headquarters with Marines and demanding admin access so they can make the change. Thinking the dependency on Microsoft (or any company) is the risk then you haven’t been paying attention.
For most businesses, the cost and difficulty of shifting away from Microsoft outweigh the benefits
Maybe. Some things go deep, true. However most businesses don't use most of Microsoft products - even the ones that do, the usage of the more complicated products is far more minuscule than imagined by e.g. CFOs, etc. The real thing keeping many "in the fold" as it were would be authentication services. Which are overcomplicated and probably easier to manage without...
We’ve looked into FreeIPA and similar options, but honestly, nothing really holds a candle to Active Directory yet.
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I wasn't aware of any major Trump-era policies that significantly reduced Microsoft’s dominance. Curious what you're referencing?
for people who didn't RTA
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I wasn't aware of any major Trump-era policies that significantly reduced Microsoft’s dominance. Curious what you're referencing?
I also haven't read the article but apparently reading the comments the article has to do with Trump-era policies affecting Microsoft
From what I gather, the bigger challenges for businesses are more about the tech ecosystem Microsoft has built. It's hard to just swap out core services like AD without huge disruptions.
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Maybe. Some things go deep, true. However most businesses don't use most of Microsoft products - even the ones that do, the usage of the more complicated products is far more minuscule than imagined by e.g. CFOs, etc. The real thing keeping many "in the fold" as it were would be authentication services. Which are overcomplicated and probably easier to manage without...
Right, it’s stuff like Active Directory and how everything’s tied together. Once you’re using that for auth, it’s really tough to back out without a lot of effort. We’ve looked into FreeIPA and similar options, but honestly, nothing really holds a candle to Active Directory yet.
Labeling all of Microsoft as banned is really constraining your technology options. This is a gigantic organization with a very diverse set of people in it.
There aren't many things like .NET, MSSQL and Visual Studio out there. The debugger experience in VS is the holy grail if you have super nasty real world technology situations. There's a reason every AAA game engine depends on it in some way.
Azure and Windows are where things start to get bad with Microsoft.
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Right, it’s stuff like Active Directory and how everything’s tied together. Once you’re using that for auth, it’s really tough to back out without a lot of effort. We’ve looked into FreeIPA and similar options, but honestly, nothing really holds a candle to Active Directory yet.
AD and Domain Servers are like a cancer that will grow metastases around your org, costing user and client cals all over the place, even for every desk phone if you're not careful. The only winning move is never to play their game in the first place.
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I wasn't aware of any major Trump-era policies that significantly reduced Microsoft’s dominance. Curious what you're referencing?
Other countries reliant on US based cloud giants are understandably alarmed at his behavior, and it is now a strong possibility that Trump will attempt to use their reliance on our tech companies to wring from them whatever he wants.
So the idea of escaping US tech monopolies has become very popular among those paying attention.