Microsoft products you can start saying no to: Windows, WSL, GitHub, Sponsors, Copilot, VS Code, Codespaces, Azure, npm, Teams, Outlook, Office, & LinkedIn.
Yeeeeeah…
Many of these I agree with. Then you get into things like github and LinkedIn. Dropping GitHub means not contributing to a huge swath of open source projects. Dropping LinkedIn is a great way to get your job application passed over (it’s literally required for some companies…. For some dumb reason.)
Use them reluctantly & push back against it until you can free yourself from them. Let folks know you are unhappy about it or powers at be will think everything is okay. Surely we can agree fundamentally that Microsoft should not be controlling these spaces as it does with the platform lock-in.
