Not again, Microsoft!
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@npro , this is valid for all companies that offer FOSS, be it M$, GitHub (also M$), Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. all these offer FOSS.
But there is a difference if these apps are made by these companies or come from developers who have uploaded it to their stores.
That Windows has the largest catalog of FOSS available is only the result that it is the main target of developers as it is the most used OS.
It is not necessarily a contradiction to using FOSS on Windows, because among these apps there are also many that can improve privacy, because they block and disable telemetry, the obsession to using EDGE and Bing instead of Vivaldi for some sites, which has Windows and other garbage that 'improve the user experience'. VPN and Mails like Proton, which are also OpenSource and other things -
EU tech firms file formal complaint against Microsoft for bundling OneDrive with Windows
Dozens of European tech firms have accused Microsoft of abusing its dominant position in the industry due to how it aggressively pushes and bundles first-party services (OneDrive, Office 365, Teams etc.) with Windows. German cloud storage company, Nextcloud, has revealed that it officially asked the EU and German authorities to put a stop to Microsoft’s anticompetitive behavior, and that it’s also looking to file a complaint in France with a coalition of nearly 30 partners to establish a level playing field.
Further: https://www.zdnet.com/article/eu-companies-sue-microsoft-onedrive-windows-integration/
Microsoft has done this not by any technical advantage or sales benefits but by heavily favoring its own products and services, self-preferencing over other services.
This is quite similar to what Microsoft did when it killed the competition in the browser market, stopping nearly all browser innovations for over a decade. Copy an innovators' product, bundle it with your own dominant product, and kill their business, then stop innovating.
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@npro Karma is a bitch, yet MS still dare to dancing around this crazy bitch after the "last date"... LOL
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@dude99
....they just don't dance like they used to....
pioneers of the clap shuffle craze... heady days indeed...
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Not again Microsoft!
(you 'd wish)
Microsoft is tied to hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign bribes, whistleblower alleges
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@npro To be fair, there are countries where you have to bribe people to do business.
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Nearly four years later, it looks like nothing has really changed.
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@npro Ah.
“I don’t want you to be a blocker,” he recalls the manager telling him. If he uncovered anything suspicious, the manager said, “You have to turn your head and leave it as is.”
I am shocked beyond words that an eminent company of pristine virtues & #1 product excellence, combined with ultimate respect for customer privacy & security, is apparently instead only corporate pondscum. Who knew?
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MICROSOFT IS TIED TO HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN FOREIGN BRIBES, WHISTLEBLOWER ALLEGES
This must be another Russian disinformation just like Hunter's laptop! Who is going to believe that if American don't believe the corruption evidence uncovered from that laptop months before the 2020 elections, insist to put Biden & Kamala in charge of America? LOL
Come on man, there are no such thing as "bribe" because we all know big tech always "lobbying" all sort of honest & decent politician to do the greatest deed for common little people. No good politician will sold the voters out for a few millions bucks, just as brandon the sober once said: "We have to... Wait what am I doing here?"
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@dude99 said in Not again, Microsoft!:
MICROSOFT IS TIED TO HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN FOREIGN BRIBES, WHISTLEBLOWER ALLEGES
This must be another Russian disinformation just like Hunter's laptop! Who is going to believe that if American don't believe the corruption evidence uncovered from that laptop months before the 2020 elections, insist to put Biden & Kamala in charge of America? LOL
Come on man, there are no such thing as "bribe" because we all know big tech always "lobbying" all sort of honest & decent politician to do the greatest deed for common little people. No good politician will sold the voters out for a few millions bucks, just as brandon the sober once said: "We have to... Wait what am I doing here?"
Biggest load of conspiracy gibberish I have wasted my time reading in quite a while.
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@cantankrus Apparently, the sarcasm got lost in translation.
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@cantankrus said in Not again, Microsoft!:
Biggest load of conspiracy gibberish I have wasted my time reading in quite a while.
To be fair this is no where as BS as the Covid lab leak origin conspiracy... Oh, wait it's no longer a "conspiracy" according to the mainstream media. My bad, I guess CNN &
FacebookMeta need to fact check again later this year to decide if all the conspiracy they fact checked last year ain't conspiracy anymore when they try to to get their botched narrative right, I meant left... Uh, "politically correct"? LOL -
Haha, the wonderful fun just keeps coming.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-hackers-abuse-vlc-media-player-to-launch-malware-loader/some initial access to some of the breached networks was through a Microsoft Exchange server, indicating that the actor exploited a known vulnerability on unpatched machines
deployed a custom loader on compromised systems with the help of the popular VLC media player
attacker uses a clean version of VLC with a malicious DLL file in the same path as the media player's export functions
The technique is known as DLL side-loading and it is widely used by threat actors to load malware into legitimate processes to hide the malicious activity.
Stockholm is just my very fave Syndrome.
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I just purchased a Surface Laptop 4; Vivaldi and other non-Microsoft products simply won't install or, if they do, work properly after installation. It's the most determined sentry yet. Any suggestions other than change operating systems? I have need to remain with Windows.
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@BoonAppledore Tweet Bill Gates about how awesome & lovely the Surface Laptop is, except it can't even function properly with 3rd party apps. LOL
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@dude99 , Bill Gates since years has nothing to do with M$, now there are other bosses.
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@BoonAppledore said in Not again, Microsoft!:
I just purchased a Surface Laptop 4; Vivaldi and other non-Microsoft products simply won't install or, if they do, work properly after installation. It's the most determined sentry yet. Any suggestions other than change operating systems? I have need to remain with Windows.
You just bought a nice new Windows laptop
https://www.notebooksbilliger.de/notebooks/microsoft+notebooks/surface+laptop+4
for a lot of money and you can't install Vivaldi for Windows on it?
This is almost impossible to imagine.
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@BoonAppledore But first:
Welcome here to the forum!
Try to use Vivaldi, think you will not regret it.
Most of the time there is a solution. -
Microsoft is too busy being the problem to be the cure. Unfortunately the triumvirate of Google, Apple and Microsoft are winning - democratically in the age of relentless media. A mere mention of alternatives to the spyware with huge marketing budgets causes blank stares and silence until the interloper has left the building. Sometimes someone might display sympathy for the poor ignorant soul who simply doesn't understand the technology. It's all rather biblical really. The place to suggest alternatives without condescension is on their turf (Amazon, Facebook, etcetera).
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@BoonAppledore said in Not again, Microsoft!:
It's the most determined sentry yet.
What do you mean by that?