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> are so tightly coupled with packages like office 365

Are they though? Do you know this for a fact? I mean, sure, MS Office is very popular in government settings, but does this really go beyond the possibility of just replacing it with LibreOffice if they so decided?

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Sharing a link to a document that others can edit in the cloud is much more convenient than emailing around a _final_v3(2).docx document.

Well... there's Collabora online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbQFTkFaYlo

or Box/DropBox/other cloud storage services, which is less convenient than proper collaborative in-pace editing, but you can still get the file at the link, edit it and upload it.

I obviously can’t speak for all, even most, but back in my consulting days I can say the many US federal and state agencies use Azure AD and a litany of AWS services that are core to vital work streams. Enough that having to shut them down would neuter the department.

> Enough that having to shut them down would neuter the department.

You've just identified one very good reason that they shouldn't be dependent on a single, proprietary vendor.

Really, I was surprised to find your original comment on Hacker News, especially with you ironically fronting it with calling other people naive.

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