Having said all that, the one group I won’t excuse is the Government and Public Sector. There’s no excuse for tax-payer funded services to not be operating on their own services and/or using other sovereign services, rather than continuing to pump money out if their economy and into the hands of US tech giants!
Oh man, here in Australia it turns out there was an internal review into whether or not putting all our eggs into the MS basket was a good idea just a couple of months ago, said an outage could have potentially catastrophic impacts.
While acknowledging the need for diversity of tech providers, Mr Hansford also said it was “unrealistic” for Australia to find alternatives to major US providers, and that it should instead seek closer ties with the company.
Oh man, here in Australia it turns out there was an internal review into whether or not putting all our eggs into the MS basket was a good idea just a couple of months ago, said an outage could have potentially catastrophic impacts.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-11-13/microsoft-reliance-national-security-risk/107382100
And then they came to this conclusion.
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