This is particularly annoying because after converting my kid's laptop to Linux with #EndOfTen, school WiFi certificates would not allow connection so we had to switch back to Microsoft to allow school work submissions 🤬 #MicrosoftTax.
This is particularly annoying because after converting my kid's laptop to Linux with #EndOfTen, school WiFi certificates would not allow connection so we had to switch back to Microsoft to allow school work submissions 🤬
#MicrosoftTax.
DKK 60 million on Microsoft and Google software licences *every year* paid Danish state schools. And imagine how much government IT is paying on top. It's time to start calling it the #MicrosoftTax HT@cryptohagen@social.data.coop ing.dk/artikel/her-...

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DKK 60 million on Microsoft and Google software licences *every year* paid Danish state schools. And imagine how much government IT is paying on top.
It's time to start calling it the #MicrosoftTax

HT @cryptohagen

https://ing.dk/artikel/her-er-regnestykket-saa-meget-koster-det-smide-google-og-microsoft-ud-af-folkeskolen

Her er regnestykket: Så meget koster det at smide Google og Microsoft ud af folkeskolen | Ingeniøren

Med en tocifret millioninvestering og et års arbejde kan en open source løsning til den danske folkeskole smide amerikansk tech på porten, viser ny analyse.

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Cities, organisations, companies getting off Microsoft, countries are ditching Microsoft.

Microsoft made win10 computers obsolete, virus magnets, no support, 200 million of them.

👉 So Microsoft is raising prices!?!
across the board. (Copilot ha ha ha is going to 400 bucks a year, ha ha ha)

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"Microsoft 365 Prices Rising For Businesses and Governments in July 2026"

(Thinkpad w/ linux costs 140 bucks less at Lenovo)

https://m.slashdot.org/story/450003

#linux #microsoftTax

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@kura Yeah, #Microsoft enshittified #Windows continously beginning with #WindowsVista.

And in fact I think that if people had to pay for that #Govware and weren't forced to pay a #MicrosoftTax aka. #OEM's margins for a #Preinstall they would not even think about using #Linux instead.

I'd rather help people and migrate their files for a small fee once than exploit #TechIlliterates that bought a dysfunctional crapware on a semiannual basis because Windows constantly breaks shite!

@arstechnica personally, I'd scrap #Windows get a machine without the #MicrosoftTax and just put @ubuntu 22.04 LTS on it.