>to be honest, Microsoft is making it increasingly attractive to switch. Now that the company is putting AI in everything, everything is becoming more annoying to use."
Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
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Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
#172I spent the past year working for a company that relies heavily on Microsoft for email, productivity tools, and identity management. After that experience, I can say with confidence: never again. The support is astonishingly poor, and user experience feels like an afterthought. More importantly, using Microsoft at scale can leave your organization fundamentally insecure. The obscure, insecure defaults are, at best, d…
Where do I find money to fund my rewrite of Kerberos 5 in Rust, removing the dumb options and Kerberos 4 compatibility and eventually create Kerberos 6 + AD that will solve a metric buttload of issues in Linux and knock a major peg of MS off?
Kerberos solves the problem that doing public key authentication is slow on a i386
Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
What kind of obscure insecure defaults are there?
Check out the Microsoft baseline security guidelines for Windows 11. It's about 400 entries. 400 settings that Microsoft themselves recommend changing from the defaults to achieve a baseline security. Why does windows 11 show stock values in the task bar by default? Why does it show ads, games and yellow press headlines when you click on it? On the enterprise edition! Xbox services are installed and running by defaul…
Changing the default would cost sales and increase support costs.
Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
Push has come to shove and has been shoving for nearly a decade. Europeans continue to be incapable. As a Canadian I wish they were not, but they are.
The problem is , there are very few Europeans or EUans. There are French and Germans and Spanish etc; they all want their country first and sure open markets but their country first. That is how they vote (certainly these days). Most people do not feel EU unfortunately. Language is one thing: it is getting better but having language not unified (English, Spanish, Mandarin; pick one) is a massive and real issue keepin…
Well written. I hope one day the united states of europe is a real political entity, burying the stupidity that is fragmented national interests.
Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
#175I spent the past year working for a company that relies heavily on Microsoft for email, productivity tools, and identity management. After that experience, I can say with confidence: never again. The support is astonishingly poor, and user experience feels like an afterthought. More importantly, using Microsoft at scale can leave your organization fundamentally insecure. The obscure, insecure defaults are, at best, d…
Where do I find money to fund my rewrite of Kerberos 5 in Rust, removing the dumb options and Kerberos 4 compatibility and eventually create Kerberos 6 + AD that will solve a metric buttload of issues in Linux and knock a major peg of MS off?
What issues on Linux would this actually solve?
Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
Excuse denied. All they had to do was nothing. Instead they over-regulated way too early, before the industries could grow enough to support operating in such an environment. Now they are behind and will likely never catch up. The future of European tech is government handouts/scraps, collected by force from American companies.
That doesn't feel true. I've founded several companies and talk to many other founders in the Netherlands. I've never experienced or heard of government regulation (though often somewhat annoying of course) being an inhibiting factor.* Funding opportunities are nearly absent though. And it seems that buying 'local' software has never been a consideration (until now). On the contrary: I've seen many cases where EU/nat…
…and that’s why all the major big tech is dutch. Amazon, google, meta, apple, Netflix, nvidia. All Dutch
Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
#177Can Dutch universities do with Microsoft? Genuinely how far gone are we that this is a question?
Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "Europe" is, unlike the US, not a single entity It really needs to be, though, that's kind of the crux of it. Federate or die off, it's time to get rid of old tribal thinking. We're all Europeans.
I can't fathom why you would give one parlement all the power. This is the root issue of America right now, individual states have less and less power every year.
The root issue in the US is regulatory capture. Easier to do with one parliament, but not impossible with dozens.
The US has been fighting corporatism vs. oligarchy since the cold war ended, with regulatory capture as a primary tool in both tool chests.
There are some simple policy changes, politically unsavvy in the US, that a federated EU could implement to induce better outcomes.
Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is , there are very few Europeans or EUans. There are French and Germans and Spanish etc; they all want their country first and sure open markets but their country first. That is how they vote (certainly these days). Most people do not feel EU unfortunately. Language is one thing: it is getting better but having language not unified (English, Spanish, Mandarin; pick one) is a massive and real issue keepin…
Well written. I hope one day the united states of europe is a real political entity, burying the stupidity that is fragmented national interests.
As a EU citizen that moved to a different EU country: Yes please!
I constantly need a VPN as some services from my old country are geo-blocked. And when I forget to disable the VPN to my old country I can't visit certain sites from my current country. I need two phone numbers as some services require a phone number from the country they operate out of. I'm talking banking, classifieds, insurance, municipal. I can't use certain apps from my current country because I have to switch my account country but that disables apps from my old country.
And the best part, I can't vote for the national elections in my current country. Only for those in my old country. And it will be like that for the rest of my life. An example: I had to enable VPN to see the election results of my old country, the one I am eligible to vote in.
Please unify the EU so I don't have to deal with all of this.
Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
#180Dependence on Redmond and Washington (for high-complexity software, national security, and any other "really hard" stuff) is a very easy, comfy local optimum.
Actual independence would require a great deal of competence, expenditure, hard work, long-range planning, and time living unhappily far from any optimum.
While the Dutch obviously know how to do that - nobody in America is keeping the North Sea at bay for them - I would not bet that they'll actually do it here.