Can they get rid of Typescript, npm, Github, VS, VSCode, .NET, C#, F#, C++ / DirectX, Next.js, vcpkg, Microsoft contributions to Java, Rust, and Linux kernel, on their students teaching materials?
If they can switch to UNIX FOSS technologies with zero trace of Microsoft's money sponsorship, and hinder the students careers in specific job markets, then surely.
People usually never look beyond getting rid of Office and Windows.
> "The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court suddenly couldn't access his email. According to Microsoft, that's because of US sanctions against the court's employees."
Nothing you've listed relates to that.
If American services and platforms have become unreliable and untrustworthy because the American government is erratic, then it's only natural that European organisations will look for alternatives.
DirectX is a funny one to list because 90% of Windows games run on Linux. WINE and Proton solve that problem for you:
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/nearly-90-percen...
Without Windows developers, game studios using Windows, Visual Studio and DirectX, SteamOS would have no games.
Proton represents Valve's failure to make a business out of Steam OS native games.
Funny will be when Microsoft decides Proton is a relevant target to aim for, and shot down by all means necessary.
No, it represents a market opportunity. WINE (a European led project) effectively makes Win32 and DirectX into Linux APIs. It works well for games. You can bring those games to Linux with less effort. And Valve can offer SteamOS (based on Arch Linux, also a European led project) for less cost.
You don't need Visual Studio. JetBrains has nice, cross-platform IDEs and they're a European company to boot:
As for Proton, don't build castles on foreign kingdoms => OS/2 "runs Windows better", Netbooks.
Lets see how long Valve manages to keep their castle up.
Microsoft is a foreign kingdom to Europe. That's part of the problem.
Without wagons carrying Windows game boxes, there is nothing at the SteamOS theater to play, and then the actors have to actually come up with their own original plays.
You can do development with Wine without a copy of Windows:
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Winelib-User's-G...
They're GPL licenced. They're open source. They're freely available.
They're sanction proof.
But I'm glad to see you concede the point.
To achieve Microsoft freedom, you have to have 100% Microsoft free technology, from computer, operating systems, programming languages, hosting services, communication platform, social media, job platforms, the whole deal.
If Microsoft wants to stop contributing that's perfectly fine. Others will maintain it.
That's what's great about big open source projects like Linux. It's another great project originating in Europe.