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elbowjack65on Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

Is JavaScript is now evil?

Coincidentally, Google is shutting down Google Source repositories in GCP today. https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs

elbowjack65on Google formally accuses monopolist Microsoft of trapping people in its cloud

Quoting Peter-Waterman1 from the article comment section:

This article barely touches the surface of Microsoft's licencing restrictions on its customers who don't want to use Azure.

1. Putting up SPLA licencing costs (Cloud providers must use SPLA) more than Enterprise licence costs.

2. Preventing Windows BYOL on other Cloud Providers but allowing it on Azure, making their customers have to purchase new Windows licences if they don't want to run on Azure.

3. Preventing Customers from running Office in other Cloud Providers.

4, Changing PaaS SQL licencing so that their customers cant use Passive licencing on secondary nodes, except in Azure

5. Preventing customers from bringing their SQL licences to PaaS Services, other than in Azure.

6. Stopping customers using Terminal Services, except in Azure

7. Charging customers exorbitant fees for supporting the end-of-life software anywhere except in Azure.

8. Stopping Customers using MSDN developer edition copies of Windows etc in any place except Azure

If these allegations are true, Microsoft is being anti-competitive and should be investigated irregardless who filed the complaint them.

elbowjack65on We Didn't Sell GitHub to Google

I remember reading that Diane Greene, then CEO of GCP ,was keen to buy GitHub, but Sundar didn't see the point of owning it. Sundar's argument was supposedly, owning GitHub wouldn't improve the market share of GCP.

Yes, Google was part of the negotiations to purchase GitHub, but there wasn't full commitment for the alphabet CEO.

elbowjack65on Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant

Moreover, Bing, ChatGPT hasn't even made a dent in Google's search engine market share [0].

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

elbowjack65on YouTube’s chaotic rise to world domination

That's not correct.4k is available for free users. https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/17/youtube-ends-the-test-aski...

elbowjack65on PaLM API and MakerSuite

https://cloud.google.com/ai/earlyaccess/join

elbowjack65on Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

Stay true to the article title, don't editorize to bait readers

elbowjack65on The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo

The article it not based on concrete numbers or facts besides the author own sentiment. He didn't offer the any stats such as app store downloads, or anything else that uses facts to suggest the new Google pay us a step backwards.

Last time I read the new app was actually doing very well.

1.https://www.pymnts.com/news/mobile-payments/2020/google-pay-...