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Oh look, the obligatory "Micro$oft is evil" rhetoric based on decades old grievances and very little new evidence. So useful. It's perfectly reasonable for a c

Oh look, the obligatory "Micro$oft is evil" rhetoric based on decades old grievances and very little new evidence. So useful. It's perfectly reasonable for a company, that uses the tool in its name, to have a blog post going over new features. I'm never amazed the distances people will go to distort a boring blog post into some issue or another based on splitting hairs.

teddyh 5y ago
> […] based on decades old grievances and very little new evidence. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29251210 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29251210
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teddyh 5y ago
> […] based on decades old grievances and very little new evidence. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29288052 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29288052
smegsicle 5y ago
> very little new evidence Off topic, but there was that dotnetfederation overreach shenanigans
- encryptluks2 5y ago
  Or all the telemetry enabled in Windows and then making local accounts more difficult, although once you sign in to a Microsoft account to download some broken app from their app store then they start uploading all your app launches and activity anyhow.
- eitland 5y ago
  And repeatedly trying to trick or force us to use Edge and probably a few others.
  - tomnipotent 5y ago
    Are these decisions we don't agree with? Sure. Evil? No. At least not 1999 Microsoft evil. I can find just as many bad decisions from every other major tech company. For the record, I actually did give Edge Chromium a spin and I was a bit impressed. The Deals feature creeps me out, but I can browse the reddit homepage without an ad blocker and it's actually a smooth experience.
    - eitland 5y ago
      Not being cartoonishly evil should be a low bar to pass? Edge is probably nice, forcing users to use it is not. One should think they'd learned after being forced to advertise other browsers for a couple of years?

teddyh 5y ago

> […] based on decades old grievances and very little new evidence. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29251210 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29251210

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teddyh 5y ago

> […] based on decades old grievances and very little new evidence. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29288052 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29288052

smegsicle 5y ago

> very little new evidence Off topic, but there was that dotnetfederation overreach shenanigans

encryptluks2 5y ago
Or all the telemetry enabled in Windows and then making local accounts more difficult, although once you sign in to a Microsoft account to download some broken app from their app store then they start uploading all your app launches and activity anyhow.
eitland 5y ago
And repeatedly trying to trick or force us to use Edge and probably a few others.
- tomnipotent 5y ago
  Are these decisions we don't agree with? Sure. Evil? No. At least not 1999 Microsoft evil. I can find just as many bad decisions from every other major tech company. For the record, I actually did give Edge Chromium a spin and I was a bit impressed. The Deals feature creeps me out, but I can browse the reddit homepage without an ad blocker and it's actually a smooth experience.
  - eitland 5y ago
    Not being cartoonishly evil should be a low bar to pass? Edge is probably nice, forcing users to use it is not. One should think they'd learned after being forced to advertise other browsers for a couple of years?