@nprofile1q... amazing that the animals have more self control than the fans in the street.

@nprofile1q... apparently I did not do enough drugs in college for that to be entertaining.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... not saying I like it. I haven't used windows.on a daily basis in a decade. I would like OSS to win all the things.

But it's just not going to happen in big business. Something radical would have to happen and I just don't see that happening.

Melinda Gates could come out with pictures of Bill screwing kids on the board room table at Microsoft Headquarters while Steve Ballmer pushed and it wouldn't change a single contract.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... I have a business partner that was looking for a new vendor for a new software solution Consideredn four possible vendors and M$ was on the bottom of the list. They narrowed it down to two knocking M$ from consideration.

But the bean counters forced M$ into the top two because their deal was just too good.

Microsoft would need to shit the bed to.not get this contract. They don't need tonbe best, they just need to be not horrible because they are so diversified.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... M$ have had so many serious security issues with SharePoint, Exchange, Office 365 and even their printer integration platform over the last few years it's embarrassing. Hell, the CrowdStrike.fiasco was partially on M$ for partner mismanagement.

Step on your own dick in golf cleats kind of bad.

But from inside the walls of a fortune 500 company I can tell you that the devil you know will always win. They don't need a better product,.just a better relationship.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... yeah, sorry I didn't mean IIS or Windows Server 202X. You're right Linux is eating their server maket alive. You know how they get a piece of that pie: managed Kubernetes on their Azure platform.

I meant back office business software. Outlook/Exchange/Word/Excel/etc.

No matter how good the Google work suite gets they will rarely be able to dislodge Microsquish from a company. Apple's "productivity" apps are a joke and I don't hear anyone talking about OSS office.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... maybe that's what replaces Microsoft. Wonder if The Cardinal of Rome has enough gold in his coffers to buy Microsoft.

And then they put out PopeOS: the official operating system of the Apostolic See.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... I'm just sharing the benefit of my wisdom.

Microsoft is like the Roman Catholic Church:

Neither is what it used to be, they will never go away and they will both continue to make a mess of things until the heat death of the universe.

@nprofile1q... unfortunately it's sold out on the designers site.

https://www.necronomicards.com/

Might be able to find it on eBay or something.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... they won't "fail" because of the massive market share. It would be like Pepsi, Coke or General Mills. They are so diversified, they'll never go away completely.

Momentum is the key. They will always have the back office of big business to.fall back on as long as there is "Corporate America"

And I can't hear White Rabbit without thinking of #ScreamingTrees and "Alice Said" from Uncle Anesthesia

https://youtu.be/ORHWMMh4xQw