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FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another

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By Rupert Goodwins Verified
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OPINION The best way to bust out of jail is not to get locked up in the first place. There are options once you're inside, legal and illegal, and all are complicated, time-consuming, and probably won't work. Microsoft Office users have been banged up since 1990, a 36-year stretch normally reserved for the most horrendous crimes. In that time, individuals and organizations alike have built up a planet-sized pile of documents, spreadsheets and other files that rely on Office to give them life.
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Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical

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By Rupert Goodwins Verified
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OPINION European aerospace giant Airbus has lined up on the runway and is pushing the throttles forward as it prepares to evict apps from America. Airbus has named French cloud services provider Scaleway as the destination for some 900 applications, with an initial 70 getting priority onboarding, as it seeks to put critical systems and data under European control.
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Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling Original

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By Rupert Goodwins Verified
| The Register Verified
OPINION In Disney movies, if you wish really, really hard for what you want, it happens. In British courts, not so much. Prince Redmondia really, really wanted to stop the evil barons from reselling on-prem Office and Windows licenses, and made a fairy tale argument in court to make it so. Our hero did not get its wish, not then, and not now with the UK Court of Appeals. The traditional reason companies dislike reseller markets is the obvious one that they don’t get any revenue.
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