Could they do it? Deactivate Windows licenses, block Cloud services, access to Office 365 and whatnot?

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      The two I was specifically thinking about are SuSE and Canonical. There’s also Collabora and Nextcloud in the productivity systems space and plenty of others.

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      LibreOffice, OpenOffice compete with the office suite. Google docs is American but is a big competition with the online variant of office.

      Linux and to some extent BSD compete with windows. Munich, Germany had a project to switch away from windows in favor of Linux. Or got cancelled after some other guy got elected, I don’t know the details.

      There are a dozen cloud storage competitors. But that is something Microsoft is not dominating the market at anyway.

      The government won’t care about gaming but the public opinion would turn against the xbox and windows, which would cause Sony and Nintendo to celebrate.

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        Well Munich swiched back to Windows and a M$ dependence opened there short after, looks like deals where made.

        But good news anyway Schleswig-Holstein, the state near Hamburg, decided to switch completely to Linux.