Newly released documents show Ottawa has spent almost $1.3 billion on cloud services provided by US companies, with most of the money going to Microsoft — and its uses include what it calls "mission-critical" defence applications.
I know a few places in Europe tried to avoid it, but that was at the state or city level, and most of them are back on windows again.
People keep trying it, but it’s incredibly hard to retrain literally tens to hundreds of thousands of people on everything from their operating system, to their word processor, to their enterprise commutation and server infrastructure.
The Microsoft stack is enormous. Google is the only other company even close to doing a cohesive structure, and it’s not great.
Picking 40 less than integrated replacement open source products is never going to work.
I say this as someone who uses open source stuff myself. The average user is dumb as shit, and has no interest in relearning how to use a computer.
Countries? Name one.
I know a few places in Europe tried to avoid it, but that was at the state or city level, and most of them are back on windows again.
People keep trying it, but it’s incredibly hard to retrain literally tens to hundreds of thousands of people on everything from their operating system, to their word processor, to their enterprise commutation and server infrastructure.
The Microsoft stack is enormous. Google is the only other company even close to doing a cohesive structure, and it’s not great.
Picking 40 less than integrated replacement open source products is never going to work.
I say this as someone who uses open source stuff myself. The average user is dumb as shit, and has no interest in relearning how to use a computer.
The topic is not “some cities out there use MS cloud.” It’s Canada uses MS cloud to prepare critical military operations".
So your claim is absolutely all countries in the world use MS cloud services to prepare their critical military operations. Do you still stand by it?
All countries? Definitely not.
There are like 20 countries that don’t even have a military, so that’s impossible.
Would most countries with a military use Microsoft cloud services in some significant capacity? I would bet they do.