• wampus@lemmy.ca
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    15 days ago

    Still a ton of wiggle room here for the province, which is a bit annoying. Over reliance on products from companies like Microsoft is rampant in the gov – tons of gov stuff is in US cloud products. While alternatives exist, it’s very likely they’ll exempt 90% of their entwined supply chains due to ‘cost’ or other out-clauses in this announcement.

    • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOP
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      15 days ago

      Seriously though the high schools and universities here rely too much on the Microsoft stuff. The m$ building in Vancouver isn’t there for nothing!

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        12 days ago

        Why schools didn’t adopt linux a long time ago when microsoft stopped being a giveaway to get them hooked I do not understand. The cost of switching to a free OS would have been recouped very quickly.