Microsoft has a portfolio of day-to-day tools developers could boycott by moving to alternatives: GitHub, Sponsors, Copilot, Codespaces, VS Code, Teams, Office 365, Azure. npm as well, but that’s going to be a difficult one to avoid. And this isn’t including Windows the OS (as mentioned), game consoles, Android apps, etc. from one’s personal life. And remember ‘free’ services in a for-profit context means you are the product or your vendor lock-in choice will make it not free in the future.
As long as this is what the shareholders want, I don't see any issue with it. The strange part is why would Sting want to do this? $500K wouldn't move the needle for him in any material way. Why risk your legacy for chump change (relatively speaking of course)?
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I honestly couldn’t name a single one outside of windows, and that’s a pretty big dumpster fire