Companies switch from MS to Google Workspace all the time. It's a huge logistical challenge, not because of anything Microsoft does, but just because they're different systems and migrating data and processes is inherently hard.
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Companies switch from MS to Google Workspace all the time.
To my knowledge, Google is a worse "data kraken" than Microsoft, so companies are very hesitant to switch to Google; in the companies' opinion such a switch would be a switch from "bad" to "horrific".
I don't know what you're basing any of that on. I've never heard of such a thing. Like, on the lists of enterprise pros and cons of migrating from MS365 to Workspace, I've never once heard of that.
OK, so that's a pop culture thing in Germany, that's interesting.
But the idea that Google Workspace is somehow worse than Microsoft 365 doesn't seem to be supported by any evidence as far as I'm aware of, though.
And if you actually look at paid Workspace terms, Google never looks at or uses your corporate data, and there are tons of internal controls over that. Obviously, tons of companies (including companies who compete with certain Google products) would otherwise never trust or use Google.
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OK, so that's a pop culture thing in Germany, that's interesting.
I wouldn't associate Datenkrake with anyhting related to "pop culture" (in the sense I see the word "pop cultural" used by US-Americans like for currently popular celebrities, movies, songs, ...), but rather as "part of daily life"; perhaps a little bit "subcultural" and using this word sends a rather clear signal on how your stance on privacy topics is.
I meant it's a term expressing viewpoint that's part of popular culture in Germany, as opposed to part of academia. There's no equivalent term in American popular culture.
As I wrote: I would consider this word to be "part of daily life" like "cooking pot" or "bicycle", which is why I would never have expected that the English translation of it
Yeah, it definitely seems to carry a strong ideology with it, an ideology which is not present in other countries. Germany has pretty unique attitudes towards privacy.
It actually sounds pretty humorous to me. Like if there was a country that called Toblerone a sugar-scarecrow, or BMW a pedestrian-serial-killer, and everyone thought that was normal? It kind of makes it hard to take quite seriously!
> Like if there was a country that called Toblerone a sugar-scarecrow, or BMW a pedestrian-serial-killer, and everyone thought that was normal? It kind of makes it hard to take quite seriously!
In my opinion German society is insanely polarized between many rather isolated groups which are often quite strongly opinionated.
In this sense, a slightly less exaggerated version of
> BMW a pedestrian-serial-killer
is actually not that far off from the formulations that committed bicyclists would actually use in their daily conversations (I know such people). I would say that the Calvin & Hobbes comic
is basically a pure description of such discussions.
Addendum: in the USA anti-cyclist slogans like "If you break any traffic rules while on a bike, you deserve to be horribly crippled or maybe even paralyzed." are sent in TV:
Exactly the same rhetoric in the opposite direction. Considering this, I'm rather surprised that in the USA cyclists are so indulgent.
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I have not yet heard anybody use a formulation such as "Toblerone [is] a sugar-scarecrow", but from the aspect of surprisal, I would say I'd say I would be hardly surprised to hear such a formulation (I'd rather actually aspect much more strongly worded formulations from anti-sugar health activists :-) ).
so what is the choice? build an in-house office suite (and all the extra functionality)? use a sub-par alternative that doesn't even cover all the features?
You used the wrong metaphor though... those are drug dealer tactics.
Drug lord tactics are about how to e.g. murder the leaders of a rival drug gang to gain market share, or diversify supply routes and methods in case the feds figure out one of them.
So you can understand my confusion about what you were trying to say about Microsoft... :P
What on earth are you talking about?
Companies switch from MS to Google Workspace all the time. It's a huge logistical challenge, not because of anything Microsoft does, but just because they're different systems and migrating data and processes is inherently hard.