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At a time of growing concern over the power of the world's mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant Microsoft.

In less than three months' time, almost no civil servant, police officer or judge in Schleswig-Holstein will be using any of Microsoft's ubiquitous programs at work.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Teams is just an incomprehensible version of Discord. What's the open source version of that? Matrix?

[–] FreedomAdvocate 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Incomprehensible? How? It’s got team/channel chats, private chats, and meetings. What makes it stand out is, like everything else MS does, the integration across all their services.

It definitely needs some improvement, but “incomprehensible” it isn’t.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

I would say "even busier" and "over-integrated" rather than "incomprehensible".

Not to start a fight or anything, but it almost reminds me of emacs, because it's like someone started with an idea for one kind of program, but they just kept adding and adding and adding to it. But emacs at least is free, flexible, long established, free, and quirky.

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