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Americans should be aware of this as well, on a personal level. There's no reason to think it won't be individualized against non-nazi Yankees.

@Em0nM4stodon @chu When I was warning about this many years ago, people called me naive, stupid and told me the world doesn’t work that way and I just hate Microsoft (which I do).

@Em0nM4stodon my work would stay on (and maybe increase) - the rest is fucked.

@Em0nM4stodon Large parts of germany will be doomed.

@Em0nM4stodon My current employee uses M$ and GMail services. As an ex-IT Consultant, I have the know how to assist in keeping this business going if this becomes reality. Will it? I'm not sure. Thing is, I'm not sure any other employee of this company would know how to make the transition, other than, Apple is an option. I'm not sure how much money this business makes, but I don't see Mac computers in its future. Anyway, I'll help out if and when the time comes, as long as I keep working here.

@Em0nM4stodon If you could ride it out, it would probably be the start of the end of the US economy - everyone would suffer, but the US stock market would lose an astounding amount of value.

I'd be far more worried overall that one or more of the cloud providers is irreparably damaged by a hostile actor, and nobody, for want of anything, can bring it back up.

@Em0nM4stodon I would be very Happy is US does that, at least my people will learn some software technology

@Em0nM4stodon my employer is an MSP that's does work for public and private sector across Australia. I'm confident that if just access to m365 was withdrawn that my local state would implode.

Oh and I'd not be able to submit my timesheets (because Entra id auth).

@Em0nM4stodon I think more concerning would be the cut-off from VISA etc. I doubt that non-US banks will be able to provide an alternative in due time if that happened.

I personally wouldn't have problems being cut off from these software companies. There are many alternatives out there.
Except for Windows itself i don't intentionally use any services of said companies. I would guess that many companies would be in serious trouble because they have no exit strategy from these cloud providers.

@Em0nM4stodon thankfully the brains trust put a lot of thought and hard work into this and made the hard call to stick with the full stack of US vendors.

... we just pay extra money to microsoft/aws/salesforce to use instances hosted in australia.

* problem solved *

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@Em0nM4stodon My company steadfastly refuses (so far) to use hyperscalers for our core business. This is not to say we don't have some important things in AWS - but it would be more of a "grit teeth and deal with it" issue than the end of the business.

But that's the Core. Like practically every other business here we're O365 and the way MS shoves OneDrive down your damn throat in such a way as to make every other storage location practically unusable means that a looooooot of documentation exists solely there.

We'd still be mostly on the air but probably cut off from a lot of our own documentation.

@Em0nM4stodon Fully? No. Partially? Yes. My work would do fine though.

@Em0nM4stodon Don't forget to include Starlink in your list.

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Actually, it's more than just a Windows and Google thing - it's about AI. If Artificial Intelligence starts getting out of control and starts heading down Terminator Road, one of the first defenses would be to shut down the internet world-wide.
Alternatively, if AI goes rogue one of its first actions against humanity would be to shut down the internet.
Either way, it doesn't look good . . .