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Steamrolling schools is from the Microsoft Playbook. They started this with their abysmal products 2 decades ago. I happen to know this because I worked in school IT for 10 years. Giving away your software to the underpaid education system presented two major advantages: bind the young ones to your environment while showing state officials how much your business is “interested in education”. And make lot’s of money by fooling every decision maker in the process. It’s a dirty play and I saw some very nasty deals, very close to corruption. Apple does this as well, handing out tablets left and right. And now we will get a package with ChatGPT, fantastic.

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Syun@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
School IT, eh? My SO did that for a long time, too. No shortage of horror stories on that beat, hope you’re in a happier position now!

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- seitzer@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Thank you, I am. Ditching IT completely was a very wise decision.
  
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LostWanderer@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yeah, Microsoft's dirty plays and nasty deals are the only way they'll get ahead; as there are so many reasonable tech-savvy people who angrily use Windows, but could never enjoy it or recommend it. There are those like me who installed Linux and never looked back at the Broken Window OS that is getting crammed with total AI nonsense; Microsoft has gone 1000% off the rails, only trying to please their shareholders with things that fundamentally destroy consumer trust.

They have to prep the youth of the future to learn to tolerate such a miasmic OS that doesn't respect users in the slightest. Just like Apple does, because their continued success relies on school children enjoying their operating systems and not discovering that alternatives (like Linux) exist.

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