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I don’t think that would be the case for Microsoft to retaliate, I suspect there might be a whole bunch of regulators just waiting this abuse of dominant position just to stop the spread of competition

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lenovo is chinese, microsoft is usa

And regulators usually don't regulate foreign companies? I am european so I was talking more about EU

Lenovo is globalist, and Microsoft is globalist as well. Despite slightly different topologies, their globes intersect by a significant amount.

Yea I don’t think it’s totally a globalist thing it’s more like why pay the google / Microsoft tax and or their leverage and just put Linux on their machines. Dell also offered FreeDOS before .

there is no way a whole bunch of us regulators are going to pounce on a us company for stopping the spread of competition from a chinese linux-installing laptop vendor, and if a bunch of chinese regulators pounce, it will not have a major impact on microsoft

lnxg33k1's point that eu regulators might is well-taken, though

LOL. That would be naïve.

They just have to retaliate in such a way that keeps plausible deniability with the regulator.

To me it looks more like your is the naive point, you're talking like microsoft is a random guy in some basement, it's a huge company with a massive headcount, how do you deny when you can request internal communication or have potential whistleblowers? Looks surprising that after all the times regulators have fined/regulated these massive corps people still think that they can "act surprised/denying"

Which regulators? "Regulators" in the US aren't going to do anything at all about Microsoft. Regulators in the EU may slap MS with some fines, but it'll just be a "cost of doing business" fine.

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