[earenndil]

Aditionally, it's (mostly) possible to avoid contact with microsoft by simply not using their products. With google, you can't help their ads in webpages, their hosting the email or messaging services your friends use; if someone send me a docx file, I can open in libreoffice, if they send me a google doc, I can't avoid it.

[sangnoir]

> it's (mostly) possible to avoid contact with microsoft by simply not using their products

I don't know what your vocation is, but avoiding Windows, Office and/or Exchange is a choice a very large number of people cannot make.

[cptskippy]

My boss asked me if I'd played around with VS Code the other day. I said "are you thinking about switching us to Macs?"

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