Can the EU just Thanos snap Microsoft out of existence with a quadrillion euro fine?
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2024
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That would be a sure fire way to get Microsoft to pull completely out of Europe leaving thousands of companies without support and a heafty unpaid fine setting on the table.
It would actually be beneficial for Microsoft to abandon the server farms and offices leaving workers with an email stating the situation and their new job status.
You think they make no profits in Europe? Why would they be here if they didn't?
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Again, install Linux already and be done with this shit.
That's always so easy to say, isn't it?
Far easier to do too. I did one of each last month and there's no question that the Windows setup experience is terrible in comparison.
The software and hardware I'm using won't work on Linux.
And that's the part that everyone ignores. They'll say open a VM or use wine or there's an open source alternative. But if I'm going to run native Linux just to open a windows VM to run the primary software I use, what's the point? I'm not bashing on either side. I use Windows when I need and, and go back to Linux when I'm finished, but that's because that's the solution that works for me.
Linux community arrogance is to deny the device driver issues and think Apple is fine, when the reason Apple thrives is because they don't have open hardware like Linux, BSD, Windows...
Hardware companies are rarely held account for their absent support of Linux - some campaigns have come and gone, but in the end Linux users tend to arrogantly say it's trivial to switch and embrace dishonesty. I guess they figure Microsoft is dishonest, so they normalize it.
Same here, to a certain extent.
I was referring only to Linux's lack of bullshittery in comparison to Windows, nothing else.
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When Linux gets around to supporting all the games I like I will
It will never support 100% of games. Mainly due to extremly agresive anti cheats that are the same as root kits.
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So Microsoft just does the same shit they've done a hundred times before and have been penalized for a hundred times before.
Give them a few billion dollars fine.
Jail those managers that made this decision
THAT will make sure they will start behaving. If not, it's all just "please don't" and Microsoft being "suuuuurely we would never ever!"
Fuck Microsoft
have been penalized for a hundred times before
That's where you're wrong. The last time they shoveled their browser at us in clearly anti-competitive ways they were found guilty and then ... nothing. Essential software or some such, and nothing.
So no, they haven't been penalized; not on their Sherman offence, and here they go repeating it.
Hammer them.
I think this will ultimately backfire on them I gave the bing app a chance on my phone and I got so tired of the try edge interruptions I unninstalled everything Microsoft.
The search was actually decent but the constant nagging was very annoying.
Use ecosia. It's the same search engine except it respects your privacy and plants trees with you as revenue.
I love how Mozilla is warning you that you're gonna have trouble using Chrome? It's Forbes so I'm not bothering clicking but I can only assume that Mozilla is also warning that you're gonna have a bad time trying to use Firefox.
Yeah MS has never done anything like that before...
Looks at MS Word in early nineties...
Look at what they did with Internet Explorer. Same shit.