EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bundling

Re:EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bun... by warning26 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:20PM (#36897985)

I mean, what would you expect?

The fact is, browsers aren't a product, they're a platform feature. Users have zero incentive to ever switch from whatever their OS came bundled with, unless you make a massive advertising push. The fact that Google managed to get people to switch to a non-platform browser at all is a shocking achievement.

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Re:EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bun... by olyjohn on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:45PM (#36901121)

Done by tricking people, and sneakily bundling itself with everything. Sleezey, scumbag achievement.

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Re:EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bun... by warning26 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @08:58PM (#36902028)

I agree that some of their tactics were questionable, but they were up against IE, and Microsoft's bundling of it.

Would you rather everyone still be using IE? Because that's exactly what would have happened otherwise.

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