Microsoft on Five Years Probation for Antitrust Bullying

This is a bit old, but still relevant. It might help some people that want to dual boot and find it difficult help to understand Microsoft’s business practices area big part of the reason.

Germany Puts Microsoft on Five Years Probation for Antitrust Bullying

During that three years, he pointed out, Microsoft has further increased its anti-competitive behavior, in part by integrating OneDrive deeper into Windows and making it more difficult to use Windows without a OneDrive account (which is not much different than Google making it difficult to use Chrome browser without a Google account). Added to that, in June Microsoft began automatically backing up Windows users’ files to OneDrive without user permission, doing so as a “service.”

In addition, Poortvliet said, Microsoft has blocked Nextcloud’s attempts to access Microsoft’s interoperability API’s that would let Nextcloud users save files to Nextcloud from inside Microsoft Office.

Embrace, extend, and extinguish

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Microsoft just got into hot water with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for practices related to updating subscription fees. They sent users notice that fees were being increased with the incorporation of Copilot into the service, but you had to go to the cancel subscription portal to be informed that there was an option to continue without Copilot at a reduced fee.

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That is why it is spelt ‘Micro$oft’.

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