It’s a general political trend too: de-globalization. Everyone sold the idea of globalisation and off-premise ethereal globalized cloud services. Both good when they work, but a total disaster when they don’t.
Decentralization is the way.
Decentralization is the way.
For all the US’s problems, devolving critical functions to layers of differing granularity has proven surprisingly robust to many faults.
I suspect we’ll see economic equivalents, where critical functions are spread around at various scales. We dont need to be either totally globalized or totally domestic.
I'm not criticizing any country or union here, and not praising them. I merely highlighting that maybe federation on its own is not the main cause of success of USA and there are some other more important factors at play.
Or the Four Pests campaign.
It's not like alternatives for MS services doesn't exist for decades. There smaller and more people friendly hostings, email services, file shares, office software etc. The problem is that people complaining about MS services don't wan't to use them or pay for them.