@Em0nM4stodon But they can't! All our Azure resources are in "North Europe". It will be fine.

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I think hospitals is my current country of residence would be mostly fine.
The rest, however...

If Microsoft/Azure, AWS, Google and (not to be forgotten!) Cloudflare went out overnight, it would be a major catastrophe.
There's lots of talk about so called "digital sovereignty", but it's mostly lip service.

@Em0nM4stodon we all need to switch to FOSS systems. We should have done so already.

@Em0nM4stodon hahaha. No one is ready enough. If that happens we are all fucked. Back to the stone age.

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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 Germany. Sure as hell they don't. Especially companies.
I mean, some states/cities decided to move to Linux/LibreOffice. That's a good thing.
But the company I work at? Omg, Microsoft, Exchange, Jira, Confluence, Miro. I kinda look forward to the chaos that would ensue if that happened.

@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.