ICE reliance on Microsoft technology surged amid immigration crackdown, documents show

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• Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Thank God. Imagine how much worse things would be if they used decent software.

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• ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Microsoft has been the go to for both private sector and public sector office software for decades. This is not a surprise at all.

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• Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I hate microslop as much as the next guy, but using OneDrive for government stuff isn’t exactly evil. Though they gleefully took the cash is still nefarious-adjacent.

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  • HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If they left it at OneDrive that would be one thing, but I don’t believe for a second that “We helped enable surveillance and AI targeting of drone strikes in a genocidal campaign” Microsoft is not more deeply involved than OneDrive

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• Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I keep asking myself, why if there are a lot of countries in the world, why the people keep wanting to go to such a shitty country where you will be treated as a terrorist?

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well there’s some solace in knowing they’re relying on one of the most unreliable companies in tech.

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• tonytins@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  All the more reason to move away from Windows.

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