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It's actually kinda scary to see Microsoft stretching its tentacles like this. Only this year they bought Bethesda, Nuance and there are rumours about them buying Discord and other gaming studios.

Microsoft's influence is growing deeply...



Where is the antitrust lawsuit?

Microsoft got done for this before (bundling Internet Explorer with Windows) and if you look at where they are now buying out businesses and using dark patterns in Windows 10 to make people use Edge as well as implying it is a fundamental part of the OS they are way beyond was acceptable years ago.


You're right.

They've been abusing their position and power for years now and the Edge situation with Windows 10 is getting much worse after the Chromium update. They force you to use the said browser with some features, like when you use the search function it automatically opens Edge browser, even if you have another browser set as default. What's next? Removing the option to set defaults for browsers?

It's one of the reasons I'm willing to buy a MacBook next...


They're looking at ~$50B / yr in profit, only about ~$17B that's paid out in dividends. What else are they going to do with $33B every year?




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