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The main thing that has changed isn't that Linux has got much better but that most corporations deliver their internal applications through a web browser. The days of companies being anchored to win32 are long gone.

Of course there are exceptions like Excel but that is rarely more than a small portion of the workforce.

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> Of course there are exceptions like Excel but that is rarely more than a small portion of the workforce.

Excel is still a huge (ginormous) moat, particularly as MS have built basically all of their data tools into it.

Unless someone creates a better Excel, MS will be around ~forever.

And even if only a small proportion of the workforce needs excel, those people tend to be concentrated in the portion of the business which measures money, which means it'll never get cancelled.

That being said, I do think that basically all institutions in the EU/Europe need to get off the US tech stack, as inevitably it'll be weaponised against us.

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