I’m pretty sure Microsoft has bought a lot of smaller European countries by making offers they cannot refuse; offering services for an unreasonably low price, selling at a loss, and only pumping prices up after full dependency is achieved.
I suspect that’s why Benelux and the Nordics are red on the map. They are highly digitalized and rich countries, so great potential customers, but still small enough that Microsoft can afford to operate at a loss for long enough to leave digital sovereignty in shatters.
Starbucks is doing the same thing to independent cafés all over Europe.
The higher-ups are not falling for the Microsoft logo, they are fooled by low prices, the potential for firing the IT department efficiency boosts, and the prioritization of short-term benefits over long-term strategy. To them it has seemed like an obvious choice every single time, which is how we came to find ourselves in such deep shit.
Of course I don’t actually think they get turned on by the Microsoft logo, it was just a bad joke.
We just get frustrated when the higher-ups force in a new expensive enterprise product when we have already told them we can easily implement support for an objectively superior free and open source industry standard alternative. But I guess it fails their enterprise support criteria, which most of the time is worthless (Microsoft should be pretty good on this part at least). Most of the time when we ask why they chose <Corporate product> we just get a blank stare back, as if there was no other alternative. The same happens when we ask for an exit strategy. And afterwards we are doomed to work with a barely working undocumented API.
Yeah, of course, I just figured it’s worth pointing out that it’s not such an irrational decision within their own individual short term logics.
My father used to work for an American software company, providing services for the Norwegian state. I remember one day he came home from work complaining he had to use some stupid system he didn’t want or need, just because his employer had managed to sell it to the state and they needed to demonstrate its usefulness… I suspect that kind of stuff happens a lot.
They’re like old people being fooled by car salesmen.
I’m pretty sure Microsoft has bought a lot of smaller European countries by making offers they cannot refuse; offering services for an unreasonably low price, selling at a loss, and only pumping prices up after full dependency is achieved.
I suspect that’s why Benelux and the Nordics are red on the map. They are highly digitalized and rich countries, so great potential customers, but still small enough that Microsoft can afford to operate at a loss for long enough to leave digital sovereignty in shatters.
Starbucks is doing the same thing to independent cafés all over Europe.
The higher-ups are not falling for the Microsoft logo, they are fooled by low prices, the potential for
firing the IT departmentefficiency boosts, and the prioritization of short-term benefits over long-term strategy. To them it has seemed like an obvious choice every single time, which is how we came to find ourselves in such deep shit.Of course I don’t actually think they get turned on by the Microsoft logo, it was just a bad joke.
We just get frustrated when the higher-ups force in a new expensive enterprise product when we have already told them we can easily implement support for an objectively superior free and open source industry standard alternative. But I guess it fails their enterprise support criteria, which most of the time is worthless (Microsoft should be pretty good on this part at least). Most of the time when we ask why they chose <Corporate product> we just get a blank stare back, as if there was no other alternative. The same happens when we ask for an exit strategy. And afterwards we are doomed to work with a barely working undocumented API.
Yeah, of course, I just figured it’s worth pointing out that it’s not such an irrational decision within their own individual short term logics.
My father used to work for an American software company, providing services for the Norwegian state. I remember one day he came home from work complaining he had to use some stupid system he didn’t want or need, just because his employer had managed to sell it to the state and they needed to demonstrate its usefulness… I suspect that kind of stuff happens a lot.
They’re like old people being fooled by car salesmen.