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The lock-in is around identity services, right?

Servicing the jobs-to-be-done of the core applications is pretty straightforward I think.

I'm not sure what keeps people locked in besides identity. Article doesn't really specify.


Familiarity, convenience and habit.

Familiarity: "I've used MS Word/Excel/Teams before so I can use it here"

Convenience: "We have MS Entra, might as well go all-in"

Habit: "We never really investigated alternatives, this is just what 'everyone' uses."


Negative, the Department of War was the predecessor to the Dept of the Army. There used to be a Secretary of the Navy and a Secretary of War, both of whom rolled up direct to the president.

Following post-WWII reorgs, the DoD was created and the Secretary of War became the Secretary of the Army, reporting to the Secretary of Defense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_th...


Why MacOS only and not Windows?


Because their engineers use MacBooks.


hard to beat the MSFT bundle


That's the $XXM question.


Yes, I'd think Openshift with Kubevirt would be positioned to move in. Lots of Openshift in some of the sectors I've worked with so seems like a natural expansion.

I forgot about MSFT's ability to bundle Hyper-V though which seems to come up in this thread a lot.

Love the username.


grok 4's controller lol


Here's your controller, bro.


I was the internal tools PM that looked at the portfolio of products and asked, "Why aren't all of these just Google Sheets?"

Pivoted out of there lol


It’s embarrassing. Back when Zillow was trying to be a real estate broker, they had a pipeline for salespeople to track the progress of flipped houses. I was brought in with oh maybe 50 other devs to code the more extensible replacement.

The existing workflow was all down in google sheets, and it scaled to at least 10 states. There were growing pains, sure, but it seems like a monumental waste to spend an hundred years of dev effort replacing an existing working system that cost the price of a Google enterprise installation.


i don't really understand why folks are downplaying this in the comments:

some engineers who write the code for production US systems that contain controlled unclassified information live in china. the US government was unaware that this was happening because MSFT hid it from them. as a result, govt stakeholders are/were unable to assess the risk.

all MSFT ATO's should be revoked.

some of the comments point out that foreign workers will help maintain facilities overseas, but govt stakeholders are aware of this, assess the risk, and implement risk controls.

but shady M$FT hid this from govt, and that amplifies the problem!

disclaimer: am google


Say that I'm an amateur historian. I go into an archive and scan a bunch of documents (letters, diagrams, maps, etc). They're saved as JPG files.

What's the best way to make sense of that corpus of knowledge? Is it Rlama or something else?

I'm currently trying to homebrew this with Gemini, but am not sure if there's something that gets me out of building a RAG system from scratch.


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