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For all the crap the EU has been giving Apple lately for stuff as dumb as being unable to install the built-in gallery app on iOS -- why the HELL are they not s
by hbn 2y ago
For all the crap the EU has been giving Apple lately for stuff as dumb as being unable to install the built-in gallery app on iOS -- why the HELL are they not shoving Microsoft's face in their own puddle of piss that is the current state of Windows? No one is using Windows because they like it. They're using it because they have to, and Microsoft has absolutely abused this position they're in to such an egregious extent I can't believe they get looked over for these practices. We're all stuck having our data collected and shipped off to hundreds of third-parties, being forced to look at ads, lose work because of forced restarts that reset the few opt-out-of-this-bullshit settings you can still toggle, click through mazes of menus every update that try and trick you into setting Edge as your default browser and signing up for their cloud services, etc. -- all because it's the only place certain software runs.
And they can't even make a search that works as good as it did 15 years ago because instead of even attempting to look for your local files it'll show you ads and Bing search results that can only be opened in Edge. Their old basic photo viewer app of the Windows 7 is long gone and replaced with a janky "modern" Windows app that crashes if you look at it funny. Windows is just so bad and only getting worse over time.
- justahuman74 2y agoI'm also a bit stunned that the EU is cool with microsofts level of intrusion. I can imagine the US being whatever about it internally, but surely the EU would see that as encrochment