Moving away from US cloud services

> Git repos (it's too difficult)

Sourcehut

> Startpage uses Google's index.

If they have enough users/make enough money, they'll make their own. Ecosia and Qwant (both european search engines) are working together to make their own index.

In any case, even if a european is a proxy for an american service, you need to prove that there is a market for an european equivalent for change to happen.

> more closely defends the interests of the US.

Uhm, you did notice the threats of invasion and annexation to allies, didn't you? This is not "more closely defending interests", this is a 180° change of policy after half a century. Maybe this feels like some minor issue to you, but generally, countries take direct threats to their sovereignity extremely seriously.

And the thing is - while Europe didn't do the whole "growth above all" thing in recent years, it still has the best median quality of life in the entire world. Maybe there is a point, where it's just good enough?

Maybe the price of eternal exponential growth is too high.

I've been hearing those doomsday "europe is going to get destroyed economically" stories for my entire life. Yet the median quality of life and other societal markers kept going up.

Do you really not notice what you are doing to supposed allies, without whom the US is essentially nothing? This is a two way street. And without protection from the US, why should american outstanding political influence be a thing anymore? The US and its citizens aren't special, just one country among many others now.

Pretty much every country has interests groups trying to push backdoors into end-to-end encrypted services, what's your point?

Absolutely. Microsoft stuff is so mediocre and incompetent.

They get away with it because they're pretty much the only game in town for enterprise. So there is no drive for them to improve in any way.

But really, companies choose Microsoft because it's all connected (easy to manage for them) and fairly cheap if you take the whole package and because "nobody ever got fired for picking Microsoft". But AAA third-party solutions are always way better in terms of UX and features. Picking Microsoft tools always feels like you're settling for less.

I manage a lot of the microsoft 365 stuff at work and I really hate my job. Also the condescending attitude of their employees and 'consultants'.

The explicitly includes Cloudflare as one of the big services they currently used and needed to excise from their life as part of this move. Promoting consolidation from many providers to one while also switching from a generic solution to a vendor locked-in one would probably be a downgrade in their book.