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alufers on Nov 26, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: German privacy watchdogs conclude that Microsoft 3...

I don't think that creating a web based word processor, cloud storage and an email hosting service is something that is impossible for a whole continent to do. Especially considering that o365 isn't exactly the gold standard when it comes to software quality.

Silhouette on Nov 26, 2022 [–]

And yet the developers on one continent have done so with commercial success while those on another have not.

Obviously there are plenty of skilled software developers in Europe so the question we have to ask is what else is different.

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