Didn’t a government entity in Belgium try to do the same thing until a bunch of Microsoft suits swooped in and “encouraged” them to stay with them instead? Hope France doesn’t do the same.
edit: All I could find was this article about the Azure datacentres that they announced in 2021 finally opening, but I SWEAR I remember there being news reports around 2019-2020 of the Belgian government switching to Linux.
I’m not trying to say this is a conspiracy btw, I was living in Germany for school at the time and would watch the news to help with my German skills. This came up as an on-air discussion topic on whether Germany should do the same (which was shutdown pretty quickly LOL, apparently MS has a lot of influence in Munich).
If any Belgians have any insights or better search skills than me, they are welcome to correct me.
Didn’t a government entity in Belgium try to do the same thing until a bunch of Microsoft suits swooped in and “encouraged” them to stay with them instead? Hope France doesn’t do the same.
edit: All I could find was this article about the Azure datacentres that they announced in 2021 finally opening, but I SWEAR I remember there being news reports around 2019-2020 of the Belgian government switching to Linux.
I’m not trying to say this is a conspiracy btw, I was living in Germany for school at the time and would watch the news to help with my German skills. This came up as an on-air discussion topic on whether Germany should do the same (which was shutdown pretty quickly LOL, apparently MS has a lot of influence in Munich).
If any Belgians have any insights or better search skills than me, they are welcome to correct me.