In peaceful times, people cling to broken systems simply because “that’s how it’s always been done”. Comfort is a prison.
This crisis is a great opportunity to screw Microsoft.
Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder.
Canadians should be agressively lobbying their politicians to embrace Linux and the open source ecosystem. Call your representatives. Write to your city council. Contact your town IT department. Do it now.
We should. My university has a specific contract with MS that says our data cannot leave the campus or the country. I had a MS teams meeting with a lab in Toronto in which we discussed very specific chemical compounds that were unusual. With 48 hours, everyone at that meeting got emails from a chemical synthesis company soliciting to sell us these compounds.
I have seen this happen repeatedly as the result of a MS Teams meeting.
That’s awesome. If I had to guess, the data of the Teams call might not leave Canada but it might be stored temporarily in a Canadian Azure dc where it’s STT-ed, transcript analyzed and matched to whoever’s bid to be called up. The bidder could be an American firm and the call to it isn’t the Teams data so “no foul” been committed. 🤭
E: some might call this industrial espionage.
That contract is worth nothing due to the Cloud Act.