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But it's E C O S Y S T E M!
The entire French government is abandoning Windows for Linux. It is absolutely possible to change the entire ecosystem; just hard to hit that catalytic point, but more and more people are going that way, thankfully. Maybe they'll even eventually find Lemmy!
That's causing a lot of chaos in the online world isn't it?
France switched to OnlyOffice and Nextcloud, and now there's a feud between the two. I can't imagine using an office suite that's possibly a dead-end fork of a company that's fighting with the cloud drive I use to upload my documents.
There will be short-term chaos, but now you have a sovereign entity with a huge amount of money creating a market for solutions to those problems.
It also makes it so that standards become more important than whatever latest feature is included in .docx files. Fancy capabilities do not mean much when you can't send the files to the government without converting them into a standards-compliant format.
With broad adoption of standards comes the ability for competition to build compatible products and services. Microsoft can't just change Word or Edge in a way that breaks the software of competitors if nobody is trapped in their walled garden.