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This, for example. And they got caught. How many times they did not?

https://www.theregister.com/1999/11/05/how_ms_played_the_inc...

Your evidence is an article from 24 years ago about behavior that happened 32 year ago? And it's not even about them breaking competitors applications, it's about them refusing to run on a competing OS (in a bit of a sleezy way).

Do you have more evidence of your claimed behavior?

I dislike MSFT, a lot, but that's a _very_ big claim and needs to be backed up with evidence.

My claim is that Microsoft operating system was silently detecting competitors software and changing behavior to break compatibility. That is proven. The war on WordPerfect was equally shady.

Did Microsoft clean its act at some point and stopped doing so? They force Edge at every opportunity, so even the behavior that almost got them forcefully partitioned is back.

I don’t think we have caught them outright sabotaging e.g. Chrome aside from the default browser shenanigans, but who would bother to check unless it’s a repeatable crash? Aside from Chrome what app do they even have a need to sabotage? Steam?

> My claim is that Microsoft operating system was silently detecting competitors software and changing behavior to break compatibility. That is proven

That's a false claim. That code was in a beta and never shipped. You're just spreading FUD..

The code was shipped, just disabled.

Plus, let's be real, the Register is basically the tech equivalent of the Daily Mail. Often amusing, occasionally occurate.

Sure, but the DR DOS case is well known. Is ZDnet better? It also lists other cases related to efforts to destroy Novell.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/caldera-unlocks-microsoft-evid...

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