Rakn

@Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this even legal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s about it being annoying or not. Microsoft is in a market position where they can leverage their different departments to heavily upsell you on other services. They have an unfair advantage that shifts the entire market to their favor, thus making it hard for any competitor to keep up or even enter the market.

  E.g. they use every service / product they have to integrate Bing, they artificially limit the use of their chat bot to Microsoft Edge, they show Bing advertisements when you visit their competitors sites, they allow you to use Teams for free under certain conditions (if you already bought other products), they use their foot in the door with Microsoft Office / Windows go upsell you on Azure, …, Game Pass, …

  I can go on and on. Some of them aren’t necessarily bad on their own. Some are. It paints a pattern of what Microsoft used to be. They actively used their position to try and create market conditions that would break their competitors or make it at least hard for them to even compete. About 15 years ago a lot of folks believed Microsoft had changed and were playing fair (in certain bounds), they invested a lot into open source and were generally a more friendly company. What we are currently witnessing is them going back to their old ways of doing things. Slowly tying everything back together. Probably under the assumption that this time the governments are sleeping and not really regulating it anymore. A lot of that is happening in the somewhat non-regulated cloud market anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft now has implemented "compare with Bing chat" button when you visit Google Bard in Edge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. Found it to be better with some and worse work others. With some of those where it provides worse results compared to ChatGPT it just feels like it’s missing the fine tuning. It provides pretty similar results as when ChatGPT 3.5 came out a while ago. People just tend to forget about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft now has implemented "compare with Bing chat" button when you visit Google Bard in Edge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not very far away from injecting it into a webpage though. I feel like at this point it wouldn’t make any difference. Except on a meta level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft now has implemented "compare with Bing chat" button when you visit Google Bard in Edge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t you think it’s different if Google says this on their own sites vs Microsoft showing this when visiting their competitors?

  Both isn‘t good. But I feel like one of those is clearly worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the blockchain an interesting innovation, aside from cryptocurrencies ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What value does Blockchain provide here? It feels like none whatsoever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the blockchain an interesting innovation, aside from cryptocurrencies ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  These sound more like publicity stunts than anything else. There isn’t really much value in running a private Blockchain. At that point it lost all value a Blockchain would provide. Who are.you protecting yourself against?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fall of Stack Overflow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah. Feels similar to the relevance discussions on the German Wikipedia. Gatekeeping at its finest.