Comment by wolvoleo
22 days ago
Yeah and even the engineers and architects have no influence on the purchase decision. If you ask us we wouldn't buy Microsoft.
But they're really good at rubbing shoulders with the CIOs and convincing them their stuff isn't the mediocre trash it really is.
It's a story in Germany all the time that some open source zealots get a town government to switch to an off-brand office suite which is so bad that the government worker's union goes on strike to get Microsoft Office back.
You mean Munich, and Microsoft bribed them millions of dollars and a HQ relocation to put Microsoft Office back.
The unironic use of "off brand office suite" here is hysterically tragic.
Also, the productivity suite formerly known as Office is these days called "365 Copilot".
Most people are just highly resistant to change, even change for the better.
Ok, but let's be fair. Libre Office et al are terrible.
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Which one did they switch to?
Here's a case of a recent one which is early in the cycle
https://www.pcmag.com/news/german-province-ditches-microsoft...
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