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Gee thx Bill, nobody teally knew what kind of company Microslop was until you explained it.
Watch me, bitch.
Thats always where things are right before the over leveraging of a company’s market dominance makes them less competitive and they fall off 😅
Fuck this guy in particular. One of the wall street scum bags at the same level as a16z. If they think something is good you can bet it’s the opposite.
Europe already starting to test that… EU digital sovereignity is only really in its infancy with France, Germany and Denmark leading the way in moving quickly away from it. Thanks partly (mostly) to Trump ordering them to block access to ICC.
9 staff members, 6 Judges received sanctions from Trump for investigating Israel for warcrimes.
So it’s not just Microsoft.
MasterCard and visa, Google etc… all slowly going to feel the affects.
There would need to be major structural changes in how investment works in Europe IMO. With markets so fractured, you just can’t muster the kind of capital you can in the US, so companies that get successful in Europe often end up bailing to the US to get traded for the greater availability of investment capital.
I’d love to see the EU really put up serious competition to American tech services, but I just can’t see it happening without that getting addressed first.
That’s what Linux had needed for years. The reason Windows took over was because they won the business/government market.
Omce the tools for business/government mature and companies start offering proprietary software compatable with Linux by default, it will snowball.
Let’s hope you’re right and our governments will really start to move away from these evil tools.
I hope my country joins the movement.
The beginning of the balkanization of the internet
If we could get a Balkanized USA I’d be so happy
according to the internet he has a return on investment of about 9% in the last 10 years (CAGR). msci world index (which is usually used to compare to see how well a fund performs, and has index funds which track it) made around 13.65% (so a lot higher).
So i would not put too much attention to this guys opinion, sure maybe he is taking less chances (less scary drops in the fund value that some investor don’t like) but looking at the graphs it doesn’t seems that way.
I think it’s a good to do this exercise , a lot of active investing seems like snake oil (although probably not all of it, at least according to some data and research). someone even wrote a book on the subject called “Where are the Customers’ Yachts”.
What’s the worst thing you could find on Mars? Microsoft Teams!
Total Recall 365 MartianPass Ultimate™ + Clippy with 3 Boobs DLC
People are forced to use that at work because there’s no option apparently. Open office, libre office… LA LA LA LA…
The office suite is no longer the sole issue. Most now think of 365 as a single purchase license of office apps, along with communications, video conferencing, email hosting, bookings, planner, a tb of cloud storage per user, etc to add on top, for $12/mo.
Its cheap for what you get, at least if you look purely at the dollars since MS will nickel and dime for every single cost possible.
There isnt a 1:1 in the open source world, its multiple tools that need a managed infrastructure to support. Its easy to see how small businesses can fall into the trap.
All the things you listed have much better offerings for free. The place I work for is small and we only use the email, teams and the docs. The rest is other software because 365 is terrible at everything.
Example : open an existing doc. Go to “save as”. That prompts you for a new file name as expected. Now go to browse so you can select where you want the file to go… Or don’t, just click save and it will ask where to put the file. Then you realize your new filename is gone! You gotta type it twice and the first time doesn’t matter at all you can call it dick first. That’s like kiddy level software development testing that has not been corrected in over 7 years now! Imagine all the wonderful security things we don’t see.
All the things you listed have much better offerings for free.
Free as in freedom, yes. Free as in beer… Not really. Hosting your own vc infra is not easy and will easily burn through your bandwidth.
The rest is other software because 365 is terrible at everything.
Welcome to the “trap” part. This plus the cost of migrating to something else keeps execs who don’t know better on the same path.
Really not much different than Cisco at this point and why its still there despite the horrifying licensing and terrible ai integrations.
In Spain administrations and companies since years are using LibreOffice and other alternative suites, simply because they save a lot of money with it, apart an easier adaptation for their specific use (FOSS).
Europe has a lot of excelent, oft even better, alternatives to the US Big Tech. Not to use it isn’t a tech problem, but a political and lobby one. There are also more and more computer shops selling devices without OS (FreeDOS by default), installing the needed OS on demand.
Open Office? 2008 called, they want their office suite back.
lets take that as a challenge!
He has a point, even though it’s not a good one: Microsoft sells lots of products in a bundle at a certain price point which is hard to beat if you need all of the products in the bundle.
However, nobody needs even many of the products. Most of the time companies only use a few of them and even then, they often only use some of them because they’re bundled, not because they’re good.
It’s basically “bundle a few good products with a few shitty products so everyone uses the shitty products because they’re ‘free’”. Vendor Lock-In.
People didn’t switch to other products since they were “good enough”, but lately Microsoft products slowly become so bad that even the laziest people realise they might want to switch.
They put all the good stuff at the highest licenses though. Like PowerBI being E5 instead of E3 is despicable.
Google may have already disrupted Microsoft’s dominance somewhat. At least here in Finland a lot of businesses prefer to use Google Workspace rather than Office365 - everybody also seem to think that Google’s solution is far superior usability and performance wise compared to the Office and the sluggish mess that is Microsoft Teams. It also doesn’t hurt that Google is also offering free tier Workspace; few of the hobby groups I’m part of have chosen Workspace for file storage, remote meetings etc., without any discussion on what solution to use. It seems as if Google Workspace is now the default solution the same way MS Office was in the early 2000’s. But these are just my observations and are also limited to Finland (and a little bit to Estonia) so the situation and attitudes might be really different elsewhere.
Obviously Google’s Workspace being “free” means you, the user, are the product. But I also think that Google’s Workspace has probably demonstrated to the masses that there are alternatives to MS Office, and that MS Word is not the only text editing software in existence and that you don’t need Excel to work with spreadsheets. Maybe in 5 to 10 years LibreOffice, Euro Office and similar solutions have gained much more ground as people seem to be more aware of FOSS solutions and their benefits in general, especially in Europe where companies and public offices are pulling out from the US tech anyway.
All because they throw it into b2b with teams and ado and windows and whatever other shit they call software.
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