The Better the Understanding or the More Nations Understand the Threat Posed by Microsoft, the Faster It'll be Eradicated
We're still seeing many articles about Denmark dumping Microsoft (we last added another such article about an hour ago [1, 2]). We wrote about it 2 days ago and again yesterday. The issue at stake here oughtn't be Greenland or Denmark. Every nation is at risk, even the United States, especially democratic institutions in it (as they're increasingly opposed in an increasingly hostile regime with military parades on the dictator's birthday).
Microsoft should never have been put in charge. People ought to have been put in charge of their own systems. Courts ought to have been put in charge of their own systems. Nations ought to have been put in charge of their own systems. But that's not where we are at the moment. The "press" tried to normalise this with buzzwords like the "cloud" (they've since then moved to "hey hi" and "quantum"). This press is literally owned or sponsored by the people who sell these buzzwords.
We believe that the thing to advocate is self-hosting and Free software. Why both? Well, Free software that is hosted by somebody else still gives that other party (company, person etc.) coercive power over your computing. People can (and should) keep things simple and under their control. Half-baked solutions won't help, but they can ameliorate the problems a little. Even some GNU/Linux "solutions" that impose things on you (e.g. systemd, Wayland, other IBM ambitions) leave room for concern, hence the mention of simplicity above. A lack of simplicity or absence of alternatives is a form of vendor lock-in.
The corporate media relays the lies or phony narratives wherein people controlling their computing would mean terrorists and pedophiles everywhere. Ironically, terrorists and pedophiles are the ones promoting such phony narratives. They just think they're "special" and have a Messianic vision of themselves. █