I teach boomers how to use SharePoint. Last week Microsoft updated office.com to be 95% copilot. The only way to find “All Apps” (word, SharePoint, PowerPoint, excel, etc.) is to find the tiny little “apps” button all the way at the bottom of the screen.

Everything else is copilot. Everyone is confused and my job just got 100% harder.

Because they are free and any government getting rid of all Microsoft licensed software will save hundreds of millions per year.

Is it because they're better and free? It's because they're better and free. I bet that's it.

not really true.
so 20(!!!) years later they as the last of the states woke up.

Nach LiMux-Aus: Wie sich München langsam wieder an Open Source annähert

Das IT-Referat München hat einen 5-Punkte-Plan für die Stärkung freier Software weitgehend umgesetzt. Für "Sabbaticals" können sich Interessierte noch bewerben.

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bavaria is pathetic. "LANGSAM" is their word for being backwards and ultra-conservative. i mean Freie Wähler? Aiwanger? What a shit place.
And it is just SAD that they just NOW started to civilize. worst of the west.

The majority of Internet infrastructure runs on either something Linux based or something FreeBSD based.

A lot of the tools used are also various flavours of open or semi open source.

I'd say open source already has success. Just not in places where you see consumers using it. Except... Wait a minute, Android is a fork of Linux, and Android is open source too.

Also good and free: Sumatra
You can read any pdf.

Libre office drawer you can sign. No need for acrobat or any of that garbage.

Yes average people need to learn the open source stack instead of Microsoft.
It used to be most people could just learn some Microsoft thing, and they were almost guaranteed a job. Obviously a lot of people will be unhappy that isn't the case anymore, and they'll be annoyed they have to learn something new.

But this should have been done 20 years ago when Linux was obviously ready for it, and sensible people have advised it for just as long.
In the old CP/M days we had lots of good software developed locally, but when IBM became dominant, and chose to use MS-Dos, Microsoft was very cleverly deviously leveraging that to sabotage the competition, and take mostly every main stream market.

Trump is kind of a blessing in disguise, because he finally got people to wake up to reality.

I wouldn’t consider Android a fork, the differences at the kernel level aren’t unlike differences you might find on embedded devices. It mainly just has the Google software suite instead of GNU

Also the PS4/5 run on freebsd

But that’s not what is being compared

The question is why not?

Including adobe acrobat form pdfs?

I can't recall a single MS product that ever was good. Maybe I was late to the party (or quit early, as lots of people seam to like vscode for some reason)

Libreoffice for the fucking win!

they are also no providing intelligence and ai assistance to the israeli regime rogue state genocide on neighboring city state Palestine

Sumatra? I am going to take note of that.

I wonder if it creates more inhouse sysadmin jobs? When you buy a license from M$ you also get tech support. But if you have problems with open source, you gotta go get a computer person

There is a out of the box product for that available,btw:
The UCS@school environment does exactly what they want, using only Open source products. It basically joins OpenLDAP,Samba,Keycloak,etc. together.
Works both with Windows as well as Linux clients.

Hopefully. But I think companies are already starting to realise the value of having your bytes in a place you control

I don't see anything contradicting what the other person said.

Not necessarily, lots of open source projects offer enterprise support contracts and in house staff could be retrained. Definitely going to be good for training, consulting, and MSPs though