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Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening & why it could fail.
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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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I'm putting my money on the EU becoming just as openly Fascistic as the US and sticking with Microsoft.
People are downvoting you, but they're too scared to actually argue against it. I'm obviously hoping this isn't the case, but you'd be sticking your head in the sand if you said there was no chance of it happening.
We're already seeing a massive surge of the far right in Europe. Giant media blitzes on social media such as Twitter shoving far right content in their faces.
The Fallout:London timeline was not on my bingo card, not gonna lie. We're speedrunning Fallout politically here in the US, though.
While the former seems to be the obvious trend and Europe has historically leaned towards it. I don’t see how one results in the other. Whether they stick with Microsoft or not is more economical than political.