The fucking sad thing is, when they did it 20 years ago Internet Explorer became the gold standard. Now they are pushing super hard, annoying users, killing competition and they have a tiny market share. They aren’t getting anywhere, just being assholes because they don’t know how not to be.
waigl@lemmy.world 3 months ago
About 20 years ago, Microsoft was found guilty and convicted, because they forced their browser on their users, driving out competitors by abusing their de facto monopoly on PC operating systems. These days, they are doing the exact same thing again, just on an even broader base. I don’t even understand how this verdict took so long.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 3 months ago
banneryear1868@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Edge is just a Chromium build with more manageability for enterprise use.
anivia@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Which is a problem, because Chromium is becoming a monopoly too. Safari and Firefox have a small marketshare and Google is abusing their power
masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Because Apple saw that and said “hold my beer”.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“They” (collectively large lobbying corporations) own the US government.
evergreen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 3 months ago
The behaviour required of you when you have a monopoly is different when you don’t.
These days IE isn’t a monopoly. Chrome is. So Microsoft is allowed more leeway to nudge its users.
This isn’t a verdict. There’s been no court case. This is Microsoft complying with EU regulation, which is very recent. Microsoft has responded to it quite quickly.
DrMango@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Demand reparations for Netscape Navigator!
BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 months ago
It makes perfect sense once you understand that regulators have only cared about stock prices for the last 40 years. The EU coming down on giant corporations is a new development
Contend6248@feddit.de 3 months ago
Only because we don’t have any tech giants, we’ve slept on it so we get the money this way and try to slow down others until we figure shit out
masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Lol this is asinine.
America let their tech companies get too big to the point that they are all behaving ridiculously anti-competitively, and you think the solution is that the EU should have let their companies get so big that they behave anti-competitively?
This is the EU steeping in to clean up America’s mess when it spills over to them.
dezmd@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Your simplification of the issues to steer this into your preferred narrative and conclusion is also asinine. The EU power broker’s hands weren’t getting their share of the bribes and are punishing orgs that didnt realize that the corruption they take part in is everywhere. Corruption in EU countries is old world corruption and is just part of the system bottom to top. Nobody has clean hands.
Contend6248@feddit.de 3 months ago
Yes, if only the rest of the world would be so selfless.
rambaroo@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
Yes you do. SAP is gigantic. You just don’t hear about it because they’ve infected every business instead of being a consumer-oriented brand.