I am extremely curious how any IT department in 2026, still justifies using Microsoft. There is a difference between being cheap and being reckless.
Active Directory, Sharepoint alongside Office, anyone involved in game development related to PC and consoles (all devkits use VS plugins) and Valve has failed to bring native games into SteamDeck, existing .NET enterprise applications, Typescript, Github, VSCode, node,...
What's the alternative for large multi-national organisations?
The decisions on which stack to use made by business people despite the objections from IT. I’ve seen this pattern so many times across various organizations