French senator demands public inquiry into Microsoft military deal A French senator has put down a parliamentary motion demanding an investigation into Microsoft's framework deal with France's defence ministry. Senator Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam tabled the motion, which calls for the creation of a 21-strong investigative committee, earlier in October. It is part of a long-running issue in France …
"Good luck with anyone here in the UK giving a crap..."
Well post-Brexit we will face a review of our suitability for holding and processing data on EU members and won't have the national security get-out clause to defend it, so UK business might well give a monkeys. Whether on not that makes it through the clueless politicians and home office data-fetishists is another matter...
>>how could anybody rely on MS.
Because MS costs less, is easier to use and is a lower risk than any other realistic option. If that wasn't the case then everyone would be buying the "better mousetrap". But there isn't one in the vast majority of use cases so pretty much no one is.
Hails of derisive laughter, Bruce!
The real answer is that the Microsoft sales drones come in and do a full-court press about how the Microsoft suite will meet all needs at low cost while being fully supported and secure. The Open Source world has no answer in terms of effective salesforce (no, legions of rabid online fanboys do not cut it). Whether the Microsoft solution is technically better becomes rather moot at that point.
The real answer is that the Microsoft sales drones come in and do a full-court press about how the Microsoft suite will meet all needs at low cost while being fully supported and secure.
The real answer is that the Microsoft sales drones come in and do a full-court press about offshore bank accounts full of dosh, ala Lockheed Martin.
TFTFY
"The real answer is that the Microsoft sales drones come in and do a full-court press about offshore bank accounts full of dosh, ala Lockheed Martin"
So your argument is that pretty much everyone uses Microsoft because all senior IT decision makers (who are generally pretty smart and very well paid) are corrupt and / or believe only what the Microsoft sales drones say?!
That's like claiming anthropomorphic global warming is actually caused by Sun Spots. Not credible and there is no supporting evidence.
No, I'm saying that the Microsoft drones come in with a compelling and richly embroidered story, and the Open Source community has nothing as slick to counter it. I'm not saying that, contrary to popular opinion, Microsoft products are no good at all, but I am saying that Microsoft is infinitely better at sales and marketing than the Open Source competition. If anything, it's a testament to the quality of the competition that they do as well as they do under those circumstances.
I have worked at many places and was involved in many decisions that used Microsoft stuff and deployed new stuff - and I don't think I ever saw a Microsoft sales person. People use it because as it says above because it's cheap compared to other options - especially compared to switching to anything else, it's lower risk and it generally has more features than the competition.
"Because MS costs less, is easier to use and is a lower risk than any other realistic option. If that wasn't the case then everyone would be buying the "better mousetrap". But there isn't one in the vast majority of use cases so pretty much no one is."
Hi Mr. Gates! Any chance you can spare an hour's income? Christmas is coming and I'd like to get the family something special this year.
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