Is there a single school, college, or university left that doesn't rely on Microsoft or Google for emails, calender, etc?

@xianc78 Outise the US, most public school utilize gov run platforms (But still rely on MS for OS/Office or Google for OS/Other services), but at least most critical info is on whatever platform their govs run.

Inside the US, no, those corporations have captured everything.

They would never use free software, because they can't sign contracts or draw guarantees from free software organizations. Besides, most school technicians are not trained into it.

I still remember a lab technician (Early 2010s) struggling to make VLC work on all computer lab computers (And she still never managed to)

@vokainen099 My Dad works in public education. The distract he worked for switched to Gmail a decade ago because of some law that required emails to be stored on their servers for 7 years and they didn't have the infrastructure to handle that.