Remember: no microsoft
In total, the costs just for engineering support and consultancy with the Israeli military have amounted to approximately $10 million since the start of the October 2023 Gaza offensive, with additional support projects worth another $30 million under consideration in 2024. The total size of Israeli MoD’s contract with Microsoft, including the usage of the Azure platform, is much larger, but the exact figure could not be ascertained from the documents.
rather trivial sum
Drop Site had reported in September last year that Microsoft was criticized for its sponsorship of the “I Love Mamram” conference celebrating the 65th anniversary of Mamram, the Israeli military’s Center of Computing and Information Systems unit, where Microsoft Israel’s CEO was slated to speak. The documents now reveal that Mamram was a Microsoft customer. The company has also faced criticism for matching employee donations to organizations that support the Israeli military, while not matching donations to organizations that support Palestinians, and even delisting organizations like UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
(a) i don’t disagree, but you know, some stuff requires .docx or get bent for me, so i either pay for it or don’t. (b) user agent is freely swappable © libre software model of spread is more people use it, more developers would be grateful or annoyed and help develop it, doesn’t matter the platform practically. (d) games i think is true, but also will be ms consumer downfall, cause it’s one of three anchor points - office/games/specific big software (video or otherwise), and purely gamers are very annoyed at windows 11