The Dutch parliament wants clarification from the government about Microsoft's blocking of the email address of the chief prosecutor of the International
That is only half of the story. Decades of propaganda towards making people expect perfection and making them immature and impulse driven is behind microsofts (and other monopolists) totalitarian reign over the corporate and political world.
Yeah this is true. I sometimes need to stop myself in a project with “don’t let perfect get in the way of good”, else I end up pouring time and energy on what is really not all that important. The same can be applied to a lot of things, including services purchases.
I can see there being companies looking for alternatives and then saying to themselves “but feature X and Y are such nice things to have and alternatives A and B aren’t as good in those areas!”.
I think a good example if Entra Conditional Access. It is a powerful security tool that pulls in information from other MS services, device health, etc. and apply other policies based on criteria. Google and AWS have similar alternatives, but I don’t think I have found an alternative. But also, this is not a critical system, its just nice-to-have.
Exactly. You can even go further with this point and see how this creates a system that drives its own monopoly because the cost of creating something like that is so high that the actual improvements in function get drowned out. It is digital populism.
That is only half of the story. Decades of propaganda towards making people expect perfection and making them immature and impulse driven is behind microsofts (and other monopolists) totalitarian reign over the corporate and political world.
Yeah this is true. I sometimes need to stop myself in a project with “don’t let perfect get in the way of good”, else I end up pouring time and energy on what is really not all that important. The same can be applied to a lot of things, including services purchases.
I can see there being companies looking for alternatives and then saying to themselves “but feature X and Y are such nice things to have and alternatives A and B aren’t as good in those areas!”.
I think a good example if Entra Conditional Access. It is a powerful security tool that pulls in information from other MS services, device health, etc. and apply other policies based on criteria. Google and AWS have similar alternatives, but I don’t think I have found an alternative. But also, this is not a critical system, its just nice-to-have.
Exactly. You can even go further with this point and see how this creates a system that drives its own monopoly because the cost of creating something like that is so high that the actual improvements in function get drowned out. It is digital populism.