Didn't get the memo that both the UK and now US are blocking the Activision purchase?
>As a bare minimum they should be forced greater compatibility with running their software on linux
They do where it makes sense? PWA seems to be the main route they are taking, Office is slowly being migrated to PWA, Outlook is the first application being converted and is already available for testing by end users on Windows for now. It's sad because it's losing native functionality in exchange for PWA :(
Otherwise native desktop apps are already a difficult endeavor for anyone, Linux is an absolute fucking nightmare when it comes to packaging for everyone's NIH distro and I say that as a maintainer of a popular OSS package ;)
>ads within their os
The "ads" within their OS are only for upselling their own products. They are hardly ads and both Apple, Google and every other company does it. But somehow it's a problem if Microsoft throws a banner telling you trying OneDrive.
Why should they not be able to offer ads in their own products though? I don't like ads but I do not immediataly see the issue. I think they should absolutly be allowed to do AI but things like only allowing bing chat in Edge should be banned. The amount of pushing they do is clearly not OK. And same for google they should not be allowed to push chrome on you when you go to gmail or google in a non chrome browser
They created web version
Google's search and ad dominance on the other hand are less convenient for governments.
ideally you want clean separation of business models and competition with each of the business models.
overbearing conglomerates are not the way forward for the tech industry.
Jetbrains IDEs?
Google docs?
Theres shitton of viable alternatives except maybe for Excel
Microsoft is currently under investigated for using software licensing to prop up Azure.
> The crux of the issue relates to a 2019 licensing change enacted by Microsoft, effectively making it more expensive to run Microsoft’s omnipresent enterprise software on rival cloud services. Fast-forward to last year’s snowballing antitrust legal challenges, and Microsoft revealed it was making some changes designed to make “bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” which it did to an extent — with the notable exceptions of so-called “listed providers” that include AWS, Google, and Alibaba.
So in effect, Microsoft is kinda making it easier for companies to run Microsoft software on non-Azure clouds, but only if they’re not using Microsoft’s main rivals’ infrastructure.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/20/microsoft-kickstarts-settl...