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With the switching from Linux to Microsoft the City of Munich will loose its total independence.

Eh? They never fully migrated to Linux in the first place, so where never "independent" (of Microsoft?) in the first place.

Unhappily we have the use of newspeak language in the computer industry. When some sellers say that the system is “transparent”, this does not mean it is “clear” as water is, on the contrary when some sellers use the word transparent for Microsoft it should mean it is clear for them, but in fact it is not. It should mean “made invisible” or better “hidden”.

Hmm, well I suggest you go look at the SystemD and GNOME projects, see how transparent those are...

MS is not transparent at all, when Linux without doubt is! In Linux there are no backdoors, as for MS there are. You may have the strongest frontdoor, but with the installed secret backdoors they are useless. Try to look for instance “simply(?)” at the “Registry Editor”. But you cannot, it is all very non intelligible, you may not use the GUI, and the user is highly advised not to touch it, because it can break the system. Know that it serves also to register all what the user do! It writes the date the user install a program, for instance, when he use it, how long. No such thing in Linux.

What are you on about? If you think there's security problems in Windows I suggest you compare it to the CVE list for Linux. And whilst the registry is what it is, the pile of scripts, settings files, and now SystemD's cancerous aping of the Registry, which pervades Linux is not really any better.

With Microsoft there are too much non disclosure agreements between Microsoft, the hardware makers and the software editors. When you do not find drivers for Linux and Microsoft helped the hardware makers, is there is not a reciprocity expected that they make a driver only for Microsoft? With non disclosure agreements we will never know.

A lot of device drivers are proprietary because they include information about the design of the device itself. For example a lot of WiFi drivers include firmware for the WiFi device, which basically represents the total value of the manufacturer. It's not surprising that they guard that kind of thing carefully. It's their core IPR. They don't have to give it away.

With Microsoft no privacy, with Linux well. Everyone who have a good experience with “firewalls” know that some, if not most of all the installed software on Windows send extensively “secret(the word is not too hard) information” by Internet. On Linux except if you use closed software and that you want to update, no Internet exchange is used. Try to use Windows without Internet link. And there is much more…

Right, but with Linux being devoid of useful native client software (e.g. a decent email client), most people head to cloud services (e.g. gmail). There's not much privary there...

Munich, Microsoft “hear” and “see” you, very, very well, literally. But is there a reciprocity...?

And exactly how are MS any different to Google/Apple/Amazon/Canonical/Redhat?