Windows market share in Germany drops to 69.78%, down nearly 10 points in a year 📉

Meanwhile, macOS rises to 19.59%, driven by user demand for privacy & seamless integration 🍏

Linux more than doubles to 5.49%, reflecting growing interest in open-source, secure, and flexible systems 🐧

#Linux#Desktop#FOSS#Privacy#Security#OpenSource#Microsoft#Windows#TechNews#CyberSecurity#UserFreedom#Freedom#Tech#Technology#AI#OS#MacOS

Last week, I got an email from Microsoft. It told me I’d be paying 46% more for my Office subscription, starting next month.

But when I tried to cancel, it offered me the same price I was already paying — without the generative AI features I never asked for in the first place.

This isn’t just deceptive; it’s an abuse of market power. I’ve had it with Microsoft.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it-with-microsoft

#tech #microsoft #office#generativeai #deception #ai

#meme

Microsoft says it will no longer use China-based engineers to support the Pentagon. But ProPublica found that the tech giant has relied on its global workforce for years to support other federal clients, including the Justice Department.
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-tech-support-government-cybersecurity-china-doj-treasury?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Technology #Tech #Microsoft #Pentagon #Cybersecurity #Defense #China

A journalist/activist friend has finally begun the process of exiting Google. She's also working on exiting the other tech-predators. Progress, one person at a time!!

She asked: What about the people I email with that still use gmail?

Me: We have to convince them to quit as well. And for sensitive data we have to INSIST on it. We must stop tolerating the use of companies that we have no reason to trust, especially those in the US.

DROP THEM ALL.
#Google #Microsoft #Apple #Amazon #Computing

"#Microsoft France n’est pas en mesure de garantir la souveraineté des
données des citoyens français qu’elle héberge..."...écrit noir sur blanc dans le rapport du Sénat
https://www.senat.fr/fileadmin/cru-1750816532/Structures_temporaires/commissions_d_enquete/CE_Commande_publique/r24-830-11.pdf
#cqfd

The only way Microsoft should be involved in a European Sovereign Tech Fund is if we fund it by taxing the living shit out of them.

But having them organise and influence it (and who gets funded by it), thereby de facto giving Microsoft EU taxpayer subsidies? Get the fuck out of here.

There are no words to describe how angry this attempt at corporate capture gets me when we’ve been working on sovereign tech in the EU for the past seven years with zero EU funding (not for lack of trying).

Note which people and organisations allow their names to be used to legitimise this effort so you don’t trust a thing they say on this subject in the future.

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/we-need-a-european-sovereign-tech-fund/

#EU#FOSS #freedom #tech #funding#EuropeanSovereignTechFund#corporateCapture#openWashing#BigTech #microsoft#GitHub

Having Microsoft organise a European Sovereign Tech Fund is like having Anheuser-Busch be your AA sponsor.

#EuropeanSovereignTechFund #microsoft#corporateCapture#openSource#freeSoftware#FOSS#institutionalCorruption#BigTech#EU

Since Microsoft is organising a European Sovereign Tech Fund, we should ask Lockheed Martin to put together a European Sovereign Defense Fund. There’s probably also opportunity here to bring Amazon in to advise on EU labour standards and have McDonald’s take the lead on food safety policy in the EU.

CC @EUCommission

#EU#USA#corporateCapture #europeanSovereignTechFund #microsoft #github#openSource#freeSoftware #tech #freedom#humanRights #democracy

Microsoft release preview of a new Link to Windows app for Android. It lets you do more from your phone including locking your PC, sending files to your PC, and mirroring your phone screen to a PC, as well as viewing PC status info. #Android#Windows #LinkToWindows#Microsofthttps://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/07/24/previewing-a-refreshed-link-to-windows-experience-for-android-phones/

"GitHub, owned by money-bags Microsoft, has called upon the European Union to create a publicly funded 'Sovereign Tech Fund' (EU-STF) to boost the open source software ecosystem."

The Register: Microsoft-owned GitHub: Open source needs funding. Ya think? https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/microsoftowned_github_says_open_source/ @theregister#Microsoft#GitHub #cybersecurity#Infosec