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The Microsoft Dilemma
Das Microsoft-Dilemma
2018 · Film · documentary · 45 min
Directed by Arpad Bondy, Harald Schumann
Microsoft is generally considered the dinosaur of the digital age. However, the US Corporation is more powerful today than ever before. The power of its monopoly is nowhere more apparent than in Europe: from Finland to Portugal, from Ireland to Greece, the information technology of every state administration and its institutions (military, police, fiscal authorities etc.) is based on Microsoft programmes. Since digital systems are constantly expanding and increasing in importance, countries are becoming more and more dependent on this single company. This dependence causes continually rising costs and prevents technical progress in state authorities. It systematically undermines European procurement and competition laws, it leads inevitably to the company having an overwhelming political influence, while it exposes state IT systems along with citizens’ data to a high technical and political security risk. Is Europe’s digital sovereignty at stake?
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Decades ago? So at least 20 years ago? I hardly doubt that. Are you perhaps thinking of the 2018 documentary called The Microsoft-Dilemma?
It's surprisingly good and shows how Microsoft manages to influence decisions on small to massively large scales. In European countries and the EU itself.
I can recommend watching the free documentary "The Microsoft Dilemma - Europe as a software colony" which highlights and explains how they target corrupt branches of the government, with under the table deals for specific threats and doxxes against politicians, up until "shilling" as government officials when they are not even working there, creating fake email addresses on their tenant's email domains to make it look like they have an administrative say in decisions in other teams of the projects.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=duaYLW7LQvg
Yt-dlp while it's hot. Microsoft sure sends DMCA takedowns after this one.
And for the documentary (watching it now, thank you!): https://archive.org/details/das-microsoft-dilemma