Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments

• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Less diversity isn’t good

  Less proprietary crap is good. Free software is always preferable to fake diversity through proprietary Microsoft products.

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  • Mondez@lemdro.id ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Except that isn’t what we have, we still have proprietary crap that is just open core now and that open core is dominated by a single corp that can dictate what standards it wants just like when IE was on top.

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  • DomeGuy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “fake” diversity with an obviously proprietary option is substantially better than a fake “open” environment where the only web browser options are either made by a single for-profit company, a reskinned derivative of that for-profit company’s work, or a semi-not-for-profit whose main funding source is that same for-profit company.

    In a very real way, web standards beyond “whatever chrome does” died when Microsoft tossed edge’s HTML engine for chromium.

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