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It isn't about market share, but about anti-competitive practices. Is Microsoft abusing their market position to keep competitors out of the market?

gmerc 3y ago
laughs in constant bing, onedrive, fucking edge, teams upsells on my paid version of windows. Laughs in edge ignoring browser preferences screwing over firefox laughs in constantly returning widgets, Microsoft reward currency on the start menu, forced telemetry. Laughs in teams bundling. Laughs in the coming super monopoly of cross domain AI finetuning in teams. Lol, by the standards of the last century, they are worse than what did them in in the 90s
- constantcrying 3y ago
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  - yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
    You asked, > Is Microsoft abusing their market position to keep competitors out of the market? and they replied with a list of places MS uses their position to try and push their offerings over competitors.
    - constantcrying 3y ago
      >You asked No, I did not. I stated the question which would need to be answered if you wanted to figure out if Microsoft should face an anti-trust.
      - lolinder 3y ago
        That's not at all how your initial comment reads. You didn't frame the question as a question other people would have to ask, you framed it in a way that clearly invited a response. You might not have liked the way they replied, but your follow-up was super dismissive given that you asked a question.
        constantcrying 3y ago
        Thanks for letting me know
      - yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
        Okay, then they provided a list of reasons why the answer is yes.
        constantcrying 3y ago
        Okay, then I asked him why he did that.
        biohacker85 3y ago
        I believe the user "constantcrying" is looking for a "username checks out" response as is popular on reddit. This kind of stuff should stay on reddit, but if it is going to be tried here it really needs to be more clever.
  - bl4ckh0l3 3y ago
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mordae 3y ago
They are literally writing the fucking laws in many EU countries to make themselves the only public sector cloud provider. They are making sure that it's their OS and their products being taught at schools. They are beyond simple anti-competitive practices, they are a fucking force of nature nowadays.
Buttons840 3y ago
Does there have to be "abuse"? If there was a company that controlled 100% of a market, but was committing no "abuse", that's still a problem. We want competition. If there is no competition, then evidently conditions that prevent competition exist.

gmerc 3y ago

laughs in constant bing, onedrive, fucking edge, teams upsells on my paid version of windows. Laughs in edge ignoring browser preferences screwing over firefox laughs in constantly returning widgets, Microsoft reward currency on the start menu, forced telemetry. Laughs in teams bundling. Laughs in the coming super monopoly of cross domain AI finetuning in teams. Lol, by the standards of the last century, they are worse than what did them in in the 90s

constantcrying 3y ago
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- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
  You asked, > Is Microsoft abusing their market position to keep competitors out of the market? and they replied with a list of places MS uses their position to try and push their offerings over competitors.
  - constantcrying 3y ago
    >You asked No, I did not. I stated the question which would need to be answered if you wanted to figure out if Microsoft should face an anti-trust.
    - lolinder 3y ago
      That's not at all how your initial comment reads. You didn't frame the question as a question other people would have to ask, you framed it in a way that clearly invited a response. You might not have liked the way they replied, but your follow-up was super dismissive given that you asked a question.
      - constantcrying 3y ago
        Thanks for letting me know
    - yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
      Okay, then they provided a list of reasons why the answer is yes.
      - constantcrying 3y ago
        Okay, then I asked him why he did that.
      - biohacker85 3y ago
        I believe the user "constantcrying" is looking for a "username checks out" response as is popular on reddit. This kind of stuff should stay on reddit, but if it is going to be tried here it really needs to be more clever.
- bl4ckh0l3 3y ago
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mordae 3y ago

They are literally writing the fucking laws in many EU countries to make themselves the only public sector cloud provider. They are making sure that it's their OS and their products being taught at schools. They are beyond simple anti-competitive practices, they are a fucking force of nature nowadays.

Buttons840 3y ago

Does there have to be "abuse"? If there was a company that controlled 100% of a market, but was committing no "abuse", that's still a problem. We want competition. If there is no competition, then evidently conditions that prevent competition exist.