The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to Start

Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by constantcrying on Sunday August 06, 2023 @01:50PM (#37024648)

It isn't about market share, but about anti-competitive practices.

Is Microsoft abusing their market position to keep competitors out of the market?

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Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by gmerc on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:05PM (#37024818)

laughs in constant bing, onedrive, fucking edge, teams upsells on my paid version of windows.

Laughs in edge ignoring browser preferences screwing over firefox

laughs in constantly returning widgets, Microsoft reward currency on the start menu, forced telemetry.

Laughs in teams bundling.

Laughs in the coming super monopoly of cross domain AI finetuning in teams.

Lol, by the standards of the last century, they are worse than what did them in in the 90s

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Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by constantcrying on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:11PM (#37024891)

Why did you bother writing this?

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Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:52PM (#37025276)

You asked,

> Is Microsoft abusing their market position to keep competitors out of the market?

and they replied with a list of places MS uses their position to try and push their offerings over competitors.

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Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by constantcrying on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:59PM (#37025350)

>You asked

No, I did not. I stated the question which would need to be answered if you wanted to figure out if Microsoft should face an anti-trust.

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Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by lolinder on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:03PM (#37025389)

That's not at all how your initial comment reads. You didn't frame the question as a question other people would have to ask, you framed it in a way that clearly invited a response. You might not have liked the way they replied, but your follow-up was super dismissive given that you asked a question.

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Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by constantcrying on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:09PM (#37025453)

Thanks for letting me know

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Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:04PM (#37025397)

Okay, then they provided a list of reasons why the answer is yes.

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Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by biohacker85 on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:37PM (#37025751)

I believe the user "constantcrying" is looking for a "username checks out" response as is popular on reddit. This kind of stuff should stay on reddit, but if it is going to be tried here it really needs to be more clever.

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Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by constantcrying on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:10PM (#37025462)

Okay, then I asked him why he did that.

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Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by mordae on Sunday August 06, 2023 @05:09PM (#37026803)

They are literally writing the fucking laws in many EU countries to make themselves the only public sector cloud provider. They are making sure that it's their OS and their products being taught at schools. They are beyond simple anti-competitive practices, they are a fucking force of nature nowadays.

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Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by Buttons840 on Sunday August 06, 2023 @08:07PM (#37028332)

Does there have to be "abuse"?

If there was a company that controlled 100% of a market, but was committing no "abuse", that's still a problem.

We want competition. If there is no competition, then evidently conditions that prevent competition exist.

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