Open-Source or fighting abuse by a monopolist like Microsoft is often referred by MS, or any other Big-Tech affiniados, as "communism".
This is actually extremely funny, since anyone supporting Big-Tech practices supports Stalinist dictatorship in tech. It is the Open-Source community providing capitalist free market choice and diversity. Technology offered by Big-Tech offers no choice at all, except not buying it.
One can choose many Linux variants with different GUI's, MS victims are forced to live by whatever some apparatchiks in Redmond deem good, like in the case of Windows 11, which is the answer to a question nobody asked, and just feels like to drive a car where some guy decided to put the clutch where the handbrake lever used to be.
Azure combined with the de-facto monopoly MS holds on software can never go well. Independent hosting companies should be given a chance to live, not be torpedoed out of the market by MS offering better licensing conditions on its software products when their software is hosted on Azure.
With Azure, the decades overdue moment is there to force MS to breakup into separate companies, otherwise Europe will lose total control over its IT. That would be bad. After most of independent hosting companies are bankrupt, prices of Azure will go up even more.
Today Russia, tomorrow anything can happen causing the the US government to push the red button on European access to US linked technology and services. And that would be worse, one never knows who the next guy in the White house will be.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
