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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google

www.theverge.com

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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google

www.theverge.com

@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years ago
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Microsoft has paused its latest pop-ups, for now.
  • MattTheTekie
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    29•2 years ago

    That didn’t work in the 90s.

    • @[email protected]
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      76•2 years ago

      Or in:

      • 2000
      • 2002
      • 2003
      • 2005
      • 2008
      • 2011
      • (2022)

      Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation

      • MattTheTekie
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        25•2 years ago

        Kuduos to you doing your HW. :)

      • MattTheTekie
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        1•2 years ago

        Yes

    • @[email protected]OP
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      38•2 years ago

      In retrospect, DoJ didn’t go far enough back then and ignored Microsoft’s anti-competitive behavior with BeOS.

      • chaogomu
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        Part of it was Reagan massively weakened antitrust law after Ma Bell was broken up.

        • MattTheTekie
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          12•2 years ago

          This is why we can’t have good things.

          • @[email protected]
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            1•2 years ago

            Ma Bell, the ill communication

      • Flying Squid
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        12•2 years ago

        Which sucked because BeOS was really good for its time.

        • @[email protected]
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          5•2 years ago

          For anyone curious about BeOS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzosnPSETzk

          Also there’s apparently an open source version of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-zgv0CZfco

          • @[email protected]B
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            2•2 years ago

            Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=MzosnPSETzk

            https://piped.video/watch?v=6-zgv0CZfco

            Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

            I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

            • @[email protected]
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              2•2 years ago

              Don’t tell the other bots but you are my favorite 🤫

        • @[email protected]
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          I was so excited to try BeOS back then. I don’t think I ever got my hands on a copy, but it just looked so good.

          • Flying Squid
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            I got to play with a BeBox for a few hours at a friend’s store and it was pure joy to play with compared to what Apple and Microsoft had to offer.

      • MattTheTekie
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        2•2 years ago

        Looking at the lobbying with the MS-Activision mess, and how broken the government here is. I’m sure they would of gave in.

    • @[email protected]
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      It might work if the fine was a couple hundred billion, we can give them a payment plan.

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