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This, for example. And they got caught. How many times they did not? https://www.theregister.com/1999/11/05/how_ms_played_the_incompatibility/ https://www.ther

This, for example. And they got caught. How many times they did not? https://www.theregister.com/1999/11/05/how_ms_played_the_incompatibility/ https://www.theregister.com/1999/11/05/how_ms_played_the_inc...

lsaferite 3y ago
Your evidence is an article from 24 years ago about behavior that happened 32 year ago? And it's not even about them breaking competitors applications, it's about them refusing to run on a competing OS (in a bit of a sleezy way). Do you have more evidence of your claimed behavior? I dislike MSFT, a lot, but that's a _very_ big claim and needs to be backed up with evidence.
- TylerE 3y ago
  Plus, let's be real, the Register is basically the tech equivalent of the Daily Mail. Often amusing, occasionally occurate.
  - failuser 3y ago
    Sure, but the DR DOS case is well known. Is ZDnet better? It also lists other cases related to efforts to destroy Novell. https://www.zdnet.com/article/caldera-unlocks-microsoft-evidence/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/caldera-unlocks-microsoft-evid...
- failuser 3y ago
  My claim is that Microsoft operating system was silently detecting competitors software and changing behavior to break compatibility. That is proven. The war on WordPerfect was equally shady. Did Microsoft clean its act at some point and stopped doing so? They force Edge at every opportunity, so even the behavior that almost got them forcefully partitioned is back. I don’t think we have caught them outright sabotaging e.g. Chrome aside from the default browser shenanigans, but who would bother to check unless it’s a repeatable crash? Aside from Chrome what app do they even have a need to sabotage? Steam?
  - belltaco 3y ago
    > My claim is that Microsoft operating system was silently detecting competitors software and changing behavior to break compatibility. That is proven That's a false claim. That code was in a beta and never shipped. You're just spreading FUD..
    - xen0 3y ago
      The code was shipped, just disabled.

lsaferite 3y ago

Your evidence is an article from 24 years ago about behavior that happened 32 year ago? And it's not even about them breaking competitors applications, it's about them refusing to run on a competing OS (in a bit of a sleezy way). Do you have more evidence of your claimed behavior? I dislike MSFT, a lot, but that's a _very_ big claim and needs to be backed up with evidence.

TylerE 3y ago
Plus, let's be real, the Register is basically the tech equivalent of the Daily Mail. Often amusing, occasionally occurate.
- failuser 3y ago
  Sure, but the DR DOS case is well known. Is ZDnet better? It also lists other cases related to efforts to destroy Novell. https://www.zdnet.com/article/caldera-unlocks-microsoft-evidence/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/caldera-unlocks-microsoft-evid...
failuser 3y ago
My claim is that Microsoft operating system was silently detecting competitors software and changing behavior to break compatibility. That is proven. The war on WordPerfect was equally shady. Did Microsoft clean its act at some point and stopped doing so? They force Edge at every opportunity, so even the behavior that almost got them forcefully partitioned is back. I don’t think we have caught them outright sabotaging e.g. Chrome aside from the default browser shenanigans, but who would bother to check unless it’s a repeatable crash? Aside from Chrome what app do they even have a need to sabotage? Steam?
- belltaco 3y ago
  > My claim is that Microsoft operating system was silently detecting competitors software and changing behavior to break compatibility. That is proven That's a false claim. That code was in a beta and never shipped. You're just spreading FUD..
  - xen0 3y ago
    The code was shipped, just disabled.