You think they make no profits in Europe? Why would they be here if they didn’t?
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nexussapphire@lemm.ee 4 months agoThat would be a sure fire way to get Microsoft to pull completely out of Europe leaving thousands of companies without support and a heafty unpaid fine setting on the table.
It would actually be beneficial for Microsoft to abandon the server farms and offices leaving workers with an email stating the situation and their new job status.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
NucleusAdumbens@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think it’s fair to assume their profits are less than 1 quadrillion euros
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Heh, didn’t take that number literally I guess
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I would love the mayhem that would ensue from Microsoft leaving Europe completely. Dumb fuckers in all those incompetent IT departments that have wasted countless hours of mine because they don’t understand jack shit of what they’re doing would be having strokes, and us geeks would be having a field day keeping essential stuff alive, like medical technology and power plants.
FonsNihilo@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Think you and the other Geeks in Europe can fix it all in a few hours/days?
Microsoft leaving Europe would devastate supply chains. Probably eradicate most of them actually.
What do you do when you loose access to the Exel files with all the information? Shit, how many programmers exclusively use VS Code? Remember when COVID was a thing and people couldn’t get toilet paper?
But yeah, Fuck Microsoft! Who needs them anyways?
SatouKazuma@lemmy.world 4 months ago
How could they pull out of Europe if they straight up didn’t exist?
nexussapphire@lemm.ee 4 months ago
They wouldn’t pay the fine that would bankrupt them they’d just cut there losses and abandon anything that was seised. They’re an American company and the Asian market is what there after nowadays anyway.
If you could cut a dead limb off to save the body, wouldn’t you? At the end of the day it depends on how the US and Europe handles civil cases across borders and Microsoft has a lot of ties with the US government.
SatouKazuma@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just a shame the US government’s been completely captured. It’s all rot from the top down.
nexussapphire@lemm.ee 4 months ago
It’s not all bad just the federal for the most part. We’re working on that but are politicians are as old as the hills. I believe they spend more time listening to corporate lobby pitches than reading the damn news but that’s our problem to deal with.
Most of the biggest tech giants have picked up jobs from homeland or the NSA at one point in time or another, Microsoft is just the most prevalent along with Facebook (meta).
meat_popsicle@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
You think Microsoft has no assets in Europe? Asset seizure is a sure fire way to get paid when companies refuse to cooperate.
FonsNihilo@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
No, they do have assets in Europe.
If Microsoft were to fully exit Europe is issue is the services leaving.
What will Europe do without Azure/any Microsoft cloud based system that most companies use? What happenes when the office suite disconnected from Europe and millions of people/business’s can’t access any of their stores files, access emails or even there windows account, or even contact their coworkers/bosses?
Chaos happens.
meat_popsicle@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Oh no, it’s the consequences of my actions by putting all my eggs in one basket and giving a corporation incredible leverage.
Maybe they should derisk their infrastructure then…
FonsNihilo@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
True, but not the point I was making.
Sure if that happened it would definitely hurtsl businesses, but it would hurt the individual alot more. Inside and outside of work.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Indeed - about every 2nd EU politician is a Microsoft asset. ^^
nexussapphire@lemm.ee 4 months ago
If it’s a choice between abandoning assets or going bankrupt I think they’d choose abandoning assets. The only exception to that rule is if they have the majority of their company there and that’s just not the case being an American company.