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Comment by givemeethekeys

1 day ago

After so many years of EU countries talking, how much has Microsoft's top and bottom line been affected?

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sisve  1 day ago

We move slow. But the clima for change is here now, it's been brewing for a decade or so. Expect Europe to not use more money on US services the next two decade. So with inflation you will really see a significant decline. My 5 cents

tarrant300  1 day ago

Switzerland is not in the EU. That said, if their goal is to get off US big-tech, I feel they're left with Apple for hardware and Google for software, realistically.

  • londons_explore  1 day ago

    Even North Korea has it's own OS, network and application suite...

    Switzerland could totally be fully computer-independant if they wanted to be.

  • lpcvoid  1 day ago

    What? There's loads of hardware vendors out there. And I'd throw in Linux over google and apple.

boondongle  1 day ago

I'm still fascinated that Ukraine has been going on since 2014 and the EU has spent more time and air trying to go after US industries than Russian ones or Chinese. You'd think the US had actually captured Greenland.

Anyway I get it - just, odd to think about. Passion accounts for a lot.

  • dijit  1 day ago

    You kidding?

    Russian anything is completely off the table in europe..

    There’s no discussion because it’s hard to discuss the absolute nothing that is happening.

    • boondongle  21 hours ago

      The Russian oil ban only occurred 8 years after the start of this. 2022. Russia had already taken European land for 8 years prior firmly backed by China. I won't even get into the Russian oil hair-pinning back to Europe via 3rd parties.

      Again - all this action is within 1 and change years of Trump. It's a fairly visible difference in reaction. I just find it weird, that's all.

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