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How naive. They own part of facebook, and they steal an incredible amount of data from Windows these days. They have been trying to create a walled garden, wi
by hackerfromthefu 5y ago
How naive.
They own part of facebook, and they steal an incredible amount of data from Windows these days.
They have been trying to create a walled garden, with UWP and Microsoft Store. They have done poorly in the market but attempted a number of walled garden platforms.
Windows store is an attempt to charge 30% as Apple did.
They have tried in many ways to exert control on the internet, but have been outcompeted there by Google. One example of their control is SmartScan which scares users away from downloading programs they do not approve - a kind of walled garden. Many of their OSS plays are exerting significant control on users.
>> They won’t steal our data to sell to political relations companies like Facebook, create walled gardens and charge us 30% to import goods to our own captive customers like Apple, or arbitrarily try to control what can and can’t be done on the internet like Google.
- true_religion 5y agoI don't mean to unnecessarily defend Microsoft (they're a billion-dollar multinational organization and don't need my help). It's just that if we want to say they're 'evil', I think they are so in different ways from FAANG. Could they do what Apple or Facebook do? Sure. But doing so would mean giving up their idnetity and becoming a pale version of their competitors.