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Re:Microsoft is checking everyone's bags for unsupported Off... by rom-antics on Saturday January 21, 2023 @11:50AM (#34467734)
I'm with you. I hate that this is just accepted. This kind of thing is why I run linux.

I'd go so far as to say this has antitrust implications. MS is using their dominance in one market (operating systems) to collect market data about another market (office software). Their competitors (Google, Zoho, etc) do not have the luxury to scan most of the world's computers on a whim to see what software is installed.

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Re:Microsoft is checking everyone's bags for unsupported Off... by teaearlgraycold on Saturday January 21, 2023 @12:16PM (#34467961)
Google has way more power to collect data on the software they care about than MS does
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Re:Microsoft is checking everyone's bags for unsupported Off... by dns_snek on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:28PM (#34469439)
Google is absolutely doing the same, not that that's an excuse, just an observation. Chrome has dominant market share and it's scanning your computer for "harmful" software, running processes and reporting that data to Google.

  chrome://settings/cleanup
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