Microsoft lost its keys, and the government got hacked
I hate to go negative.  I really do because, usually it doesn't improve the discourse whatsoever.However, I feel like it needs to be said: Microsoft makes bad products[1]!  They're overpriced, insecure, slow (it's astounding to me how slow their web properties are), and hard to use.  Easily some of the worst UI I've ever seen and, what's worse, they've been like that my entire career.  They keep slapping lipstick on the same pigs and claiming to have reinvented themselves.Their support is so ungodly bad that it literally took one of their reps over a day to figure out what timezone I'm in.  Meanwhile, two of my employees' emails were being randomly CC'd to the CEO for no apparent reason.  The cause?  Nobody knows.  It just stopped happening.  Even Microsoft couldn't tell me why it happened.With a $2.5 trillion market cap, it may seem like they're killing it but, I really think they're riding on momentum just like IBM did.  Twenty years ago, IBM's market cap was double what is is now and, in my experience, their products are every bit as bad (admittedly, I have almost no exposure to their big iron products).So, what are our alternatives?  I know many people who don't like Apple for various reasons.  Linux on the desktop has been promised for 20 years.  It's closer than it has ever been to being a solid replacement but I don't know that it's quite there yet.It saddens me to say, I don't know what the answer is.  I just know that we need to get away from Microsoft products and fast.1: In my experience, the only two exceptions are VS Code and SQL Server.