EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bundling

Re:EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bun... by FirmwareBurner on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:23AM (#36894035)

>People with an already functioning browser that ships with their OS have to make a conscious decision to download and install Chrome. Most people would not do that if the default browser of their OS was serviceable.

We live in the 1950's, I work for Maddison Street and build a massive ad campaign putting ads everywhere you look about smoking, saying how it's so cool and beneficial for your health and how all people should do it if they wanna be cool and healthy. After a while, consumers already happy with breathable atmospheric air become smokers en-masses, voluntarily, putting toxic fumes in their lungs to look cool as advertised.

Who's responsible here?

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Re:EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bun... by nerdix on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:41AM (#36894332)

That's not malpractice. Chrome's main competitors (except Firefox) literally ship their browsers with their OS and put in place hoops to make changing the OS default browser harder. If anything the ads just help neutralize the massive built in advantage that Microsoft and Apple have.

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Re:EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bun... by Arch-TK on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:40AM (#36894328)

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