A new survey says Windows 11 makes it too difficult to switch default browsers. Users report resets, prompts, and apps opening in Edge despite choosing something else.
That stupid judge had to shoot off his mouth while off the bench at some party or something, and it got the whole ruling thrown out, since it gave the impression of bias.
MS should’ve been busted into a few separate companies back then.
It wasn’t totally nothing… There was a standing injunction that was left over that prevented them from bundling certain services with Windows for 10 years, so until after Windows 7 came out. That’s why Windows 8 specifically was the one that got inundated with the need for a Windows account and all this other bullshit. They were actually ready to start tracking activations and having logins go through an online account with Windows XP, back then they were called .NET Passports.
During this time they also purchased several million dollars worth of non-voting shares in Apple to gain favor in the courts, believing at the time that if Apple went under they would have even less of an argument against a breakup. The purchase agreement came with some interesting caveats like Apple needing to make Internet Explorer the default browser in macOS for some specified time (this ended with the introduction of Safari IIRC), and Microsoft committing to make Office for macOS for the foreseeable future. The main result though was that it kept Apple out of bankruptcy right before they hit the market with their redesigned iMac G3 (the colorful one) and then the iPod a few years later and allowed Apple to move forward with its purchase of Next which brought Jobs back to the company.
True, but those were relatively minor or accidental consequences. Microsoft’s monopoly held back wave after wave of innovation and virtually guaranteed an industry dominated by the “few” tech giants we now have.
They should have been smashed into tiny pieces and barred from working with each other. But, money. Or the failure of capitalism. Or the ignorance of the legislative and judiciary. Or all of the above.
Anyway, I left them over a decade ago and its been fantastic.
Oh the time they were legally declared a monopoly before absolutely nothing at all happened to them? Yeah, yeah. Vaguely.
That stupid judge had to shoot off his mouth while off the bench at some party or something, and it got the whole ruling thrown out, since it gave the impression of bias.
MS should’ve been busted into a few separate companies back then.
It wasn’t totally nothing… There was a standing injunction that was left over that prevented them from bundling certain services with Windows for 10 years, so until after Windows 7 came out. That’s why Windows 8 specifically was the one that got inundated with the need for a Windows account and all this other bullshit. They were actually ready to start tracking activations and having logins go through an online account with Windows XP, back then they were called .NET Passports.
During this time they also purchased several million dollars worth of non-voting shares in Apple to gain favor in the courts, believing at the time that if Apple went under they would have even less of an argument against a breakup. The purchase agreement came with some interesting caveats like Apple needing to make Internet Explorer the default browser in macOS for some specified time (this ended with the introduction of Safari IIRC), and Microsoft committing to make Office for macOS for the foreseeable future. The main result though was that it kept Apple out of bankruptcy right before they hit the market with their redesigned iMac G3 (the colorful one) and then the iPod a few years later and allowed Apple to move forward with its purchase of Next which brought Jobs back to the company.
True, but those were relatively minor or accidental consequences. Microsoft’s monopoly held back wave after wave of innovation and virtually guaranteed an industry dominated by the “few” tech giants we now have.
They should have been smashed into tiny pieces and barred from working with each other. But, money. Or the failure of capitalism. Or the ignorance of the legislative and judiciary. Or all of the above.
Anyway, I left them over a decade ago and its been fantastic.