This bastard is Matt Milton. CEO of Microsoft Canada.
His job is to ensure the federal government, provinces and cities don’t switch to Linux and LibreOffice. He wants them to keep buying expensive Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows licenses.
While Trump spits on Canada, taxpayer money is being systematically vacuumed out of the country by these pigs. We are paying them to conquer us. We are funding our own economic colonization. Every dollar sent south is a piece of Canada’s financial future slipping away.
The Canadian people should rally against politicians and business people who systematically want to transfer Canadian money to the US.
This guy sounds like a total fuck head, but does he have anything to do with today’s Trump tantrum?
Microslop released EU leaders information because they were talking about leaving MS paint, windows, or 365. He is going to be going around saying remember we have your nudes, taxes, and all your other information.
No
Windows costs next to nothing these days in the scheme of overall software costs. Office is only a tiny portion of what comes with a M365 subscription, most of which is valuable. Libre office can replace desktop office, but doesn’t replace the rest of the integrated stack that Microsoft has.
Until there’s competition that goes well beyond just the desktop software Microsoft will continue to win contracts. Having one system, with one login, where everything just works together for everyone is just too valuable.
I use both open source and Microsoft software. If you try to tell me open source is cheaper I’m going to laugh at you. Open source has a cheaper initial price tag, but far more expenses related to configuration, training, and maintenance.
I think that used to be the case, but Linux has improved and Microsoft has really really declined.
I used to call MS the “backwards compatibility company” because they put a lot of effort into keeping their software with all kinds of old stuff. This made it difficult to argue against using Microsoft because as you alluded to, sticking with MS meant paying a licensing fee, but that’s small potatoes compared to migrating to new software and integrating all of the business applications with that new software.
Now Microsoft doesn’t support things very long. The Cloud makes them money, so they’re forcing everyone to completely move everything to the cloud. They’re ending a lot of old software “on-prem” software. Dynamics GP is complete dogshit but a lot of businesses are heavily integrated with it. They’re going to end that, but don’t worry you can pay some expensive consultants to help you move things to the cloud.
For .Net their concept of “LTS” is effectively 2 years. That means making changes to software every two years. Since it’s becoming required to run everything on their cloud services they could just shut down your applications even if you wanted to put off an upgrade… which would probably not be a good idea because you’d be running a webservice on an out of date and unsupported stack. Some application running on-prem behind a firewall you could get away with that. Now you have to do a bunch of work to keep thing updated based on Microsoft’s schedule.
The end result is sticking with MS means significantly more IT work than in the past. LTS on a MS .Net based stack is 2 years. In Linux land, LTS is typically 5 years. Microsoft doesn’t back-port things to their older servers to force you to buy new licenses or move to Azure.
If you move to Azure, you’re actually running your programs on Linux anyway (Note even MS wants to try maintaining Windows Servers LOL), you’re just restricted on how much control you have over it. So you’re spending a lot of time fucking around with some shitty web interface to do things on a Linux system that you could accomplish in minutes with bash on the same OS.
Company I work for is still in the “nobody ever got fire for buying Microsoft” mentality. Past six months I’ve made little forward progress, because I’m mostly figuring out how to make things work on Azure, updating to .Net 10 because support for .Net 8 ends in November. I’m forced to used VS 2026 (which still has bugs, VS usually take about a year before they work out all the kinks) because they don’t support .Net 10 in VS 2022. .Net 10 EOLs in 2028, so that means someone has to spend a lot of time every two years updating a lot of software. I’ve spent a lot of time migrating things to different servers because they didn’t backport TLS 1.3 to their older server OSes (even though they say they’re “supported”).
You may be thinking of how MS used to be, but they’re moving to be a cloud services company now. They’re not the “backwards compatibility company” anymore. There are massive costs with sticking with MS now. As the guy who’s job it is to keep things working, I’d rather do the work to migrate to a Linux system with a five year LTS cycle than migrating to Azure with a two year LTS cycle. I’m migrating shit either way, but with MS my job is becoming just constantly updating a lot of shit on the whims of Microsoft.
Contacting Microsoft about issues is a waste of time now. You may as well cut out the middle-man and ask copilot for help because it feels like there isn’t anyone actually working at MS if you ask them about anything technical. Asking copilot is useless, but at least you get a useless answer faster than asking anyone at MS.
Linux isn’t the problem. You’re right that linux has improved significantly, but pretending that windows is what Microsoft sells these days is a hilariously bad take. Windows makes up maybe 5% of the total revenue at Microsoft.
Governments and companies aren’t buying Windows, they’re buying the entire Microsoft ecosystem. This includes an operating system (windows) and desktop office software (office) but also everything from identity management (Entra), e-mail servers (Exchange), Cloud Storage (SharePoint/OneDrive), Task Management(Outlook/Planner), Communications (Teams), Automation (Power Platform), Data Analysis (PowerBI/Fabric), etc.
You could drop windows and office, use Linux and Libre office instead and it would still be a good idea to pay for M365 subscriptions for the rest of what’s happening there.
They’re forcing people to the cloud, you’re right, but if they didn’t you would still want to force yourself into the cloud by running critical services in a datacenter for your organization. Doing things in the cloud makes a lot of sense.
Individually specific open source alternatives can be better than their Microsoft equivalent, but taken as a whole bundle that needs to work for your organization, it simply doesn’t make sense.
Fuck developers, I’m talking about USERS. A 10,000 person company isn’t 90% developers, it’s 10% developers and 90% people who just want their shit to work every day.
Fuck developers, I’m talking about USERS.
Remember the Ballmer “developers developers developers” meme? Cringey as fuck, but MS did actually try to make things good for developers. Do you think they did that out of altruism?
Nope, it was a strategy. Obviously you don’t appreciate the people whose job was to make systems actually work, but Microsoft used to because they knew there’s a million different details involved with integration of a businesses software with their software. Make it easy for developers to make things work, then from the USERS perspective the software does what they need it to do.
They’re forcing people to the cloud, you’re right, but if they didn’t you would still want to force yourself into the cloud by running critical services in a datacenter for your organization.
Is it though? The Australian government lost a huge amount of data when they moved to the cloud. Someone at Google fucked up and databases were deleted and the backups weren’t all that good and so data loss. I’m sure mistakes like that won’t happen when they have AI making decisions about maintaining data, right? LOL
Also there’s privacy considerations. Maybe you work at a startup that sells customer data to whoever will buy it so that’s not a concern. But some places actually do have confidential data. Places like the government. These places forbid sharing data with third parties. Microsoft is a third party. So cloud isn’t going to work for those situations.
It’s part of the overall issue in IT security now. Just make security someone else’s responsibility so we won’t get blames if something goes wrong. People choose cloud not because it’s better security (it’s worse), but because it allows shifting blame.
Sorry buddy, but if you’re a user just that wants your shit to work every day, then you probably should listen to the developers who actually know how the shit works. Microsoft isn’t the same company it used to be. It was never all that great, but at least their strategy is all about making things work for businesses. Now they’ve shifted to making businesses work for them. Get everyone to do LinkedIn classes to train into you that Microsoft is the only way to do things.
Things will break and you’ll probably blame the developers for it, seems to be your attitude. Then the developers at your company leave because they’re tired of your shit. Then your job is manually entering data into excel because you refuse to question the direction Microsoft is going.
…where everything just works together for everyone…
Not me.
You may not think it works together, but go try having 14 different open source packages to replicate the same functionality and then try tell me that Microsoft’s stack doesn’t work together. I’ve tried it, it’s fucking painful.
Just because it doesn’t do a specific function that you want doesn’t mean it doesn’t work together.
Being able to do things like send a chat message(Teams) to your co-worker linking to a task(Planner), that has an attached file(SharePoint), where you can then both edit the file at the same time(Office/SharePoint) before jumping into a voice call(Teams) to discuss that same file, then being able to create a meeting(Outlook) to follow-up on the finished product while remaining in a single application(Teams) the entire time is what I mean by working together.
You simply can’t do that with any other stack. You can get one or two parts of that, but never anything like the whole.
Disagree with me all you want, but Microsoft knows how to integrate. That’s why companies consistently choose them. The only reason other countries are moving away from Microsoft has to do with political reasons, which to be fair is completely valid. However, the product is still better, and anyone who says differently is lying. The only thing that even comes close is Google’s offerings, and that isn’t any better because it’s also American.
Even Nextcloud is pretty bad, every single thing is an additional paid add-on.
Found Matt Milton’s account.
With friends like these, who needs enemies
😂😂😂 when you have such a neighbor, the only option is making better friends in other places.
I’ve read about other dumb idiots, but it’s shocking to see trump destroy so many lifeblood alliances and a country failing economically so spectacularly and rapidly as America in the modern era.
Garbage country doing garbage stuff. Stay strong, Canada.
Bring it, fuckers. We’re calling your bluff.
Now’s the time to simply match the tariffs dollar for dollar and refuse to respond to anything but a concession by the US. If they keep playing dumb games like changing the agreement last minute they were never interested in a deal. Maybe Carney can be more specific now on what is affected and who specifically is targeted. it’d be great if there was a list of business’ affected and their products so we could buy more domestically. the list of tariffs sounded weirdly targeted at certain business’ to me.
Check out the CBC article - they break down the main categories and provinces. Interesting to see which provinces are hardest hit (Quebec and BC), and which have less than 1% impact (Alberta and Saskatchewan).
Even better, because Canadians probably understand his tariffs work, or at least can be taught how they work, just say you’re imposing “reciprocal tariffs” then don’t.
It’ll pickle the orange pea brain’s mind.
*On Canadian Goods
It’s not on Canada.
The tariffs aren’t physically sitting on Canada so the entire article is dead wrong.
**Who lives in the US.
It’s not IN Canada.
Oh so anyone wanting to buy Canada doesn’t have to worry about paying extra. Thank goodness.
If someone tried to buy Canada I’m sure Trump would try to personally get a cut.
