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pjc50 on April 22, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data

> Why does Microsoft have login and account information for a government institution?

Undoubtedly Office365. Difficult to run a bureaucracy without Word or Outlook.

(French/German governments investing in a replacement for this kind of reason: https://www.techspot.com/news/107225-france-germany-unveil-d... )

rurban on April 22, 2025 | [–]

Russia and China run their goverment offices with their own Linux distributions for very long now.

bmacho on April 22, 2025 | [–]

That's why we have docx

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