Surprising this happened in Germany of all places; don't they have a huge emphasis on Linux and OSS?
We have news articles of emphasis on Linux. That’s enough.
Seems like all of Europe is more tied to Microsoft than the US, oddly.
I didn't know Torvalds ran his own email service
No, there are many Linux users there, and some small high profile government cases of trying to move of office, but like everywhere else it is hugely dominated by Windows, especially this type of smaller business area, hotels, OT systems etc.