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My work for example, is pretty all-in on the MS ecosystem and it's a little annoying sometimes.
MS's proprietary alternatives to established FOSS counterparts, while well documented, are needlessly complicated and only really viable in Azure for the most part. They are also very good at not exposing the underlying tech to managers, preferring use of buzzwords.
MS then provides an educational portal to learn about all this stuff, which then creates further managerial lock-in...