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When are they going to fine Microsoft for the blatant anti competitive Edge pushing inside Windows? 20 years ago it was a scandal just to bundle Internet Explorer and now they get away with progressively making it harder to switch away from Edge, forcing links to open in Edge rather than your default browser and injecting ads into your browser and OS when you try to download an alternative.
Google doing the same thing with chrome, sabotaging youtube under Firefox, etc.
i want to see both of them fined heavily and best case forced to split some of their products out to separate companies (not sure how much that helps though)
It shows how far the pendulum of corporate power has swung since then.
Microsoft has promised to stop force opening Edge as a result of the DSA rules, though I don't think they've bothered implementing that just yet. This'll only happen in Europe, of course.
As for when the fines come: when someone can prove that Microsoft is breaking the law. Microsoft has more than enough lawyers to figure out what they can and can't do. That's also how Intel got their billion euro fine reduced.
(Missionary impression) Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about Linux?
Kidding... kind of. It would solve this particular problem for you, but Microsoft should of course be held accountable for this bad behavior.
I've had enough other trouble with Linux
Fair enough