"The immediate news was that the International Criminal Court was banging the gavel on Microsoft 's productivity software and moving to an open source alternative. A revenue nothingburger to the Redmond massive, but it signified a huge loss of control, the ICC had been sanctioned by Trump because it had followed its own rules and found Israeli leader Netanyahu had a case to answer."
"Not only did this make a move away from Microsoft seem inevitable, it likely ruled out any other service dependent on an American company. It ruled out any service, local or not, that depended on American cloud infrastructure. It signals to anyone outside the US that if they annoy Trump, their services and data might be out of their control. No American company can say otherwise. Every non-American organization that escapes validates the escape route."
The first generation of microcomputers delivered affordability, flexibility, efficiency and personal control over data processing. Over time that control has been eroded, approaching a pre-PC mainframe model. The loss of control threatens American dominance in enterprise IT through political interference, platform dependence and the intrusive spread of AI. The International Criminal Court migrated from Microsoft to open-source after being locked out of Microsoft accounts following political pressure, signaling that reliance on American cloud or services invites loss of access. Widespread, unasked-for AI integrations on desktops, mobile devices and online further reduce user control and exacerbate dependency on centralized providers.
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