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Microsoft complies with EU's DMA, allowing uninstalling of OneDrive, Edge, Bing, and more
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this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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Maybe if you all started voting...? For real, dudes, you need to wake up.
Be honest. Do you think either of their 2 parties will spend any time going after their own big tech like this? Big tech has their fingers deep into politics pockets.
There are more than 2 parties.
In a voting system where they can be only 1 representative and you can only vote for 1 then the better a 3rd party does the more likely the established main party they dislike the most wins.
People know this and still vote 3rd party as neither main party will make the voting system more representative (that would hurt their chances of winning next time).
There are more than 3 parties.
That is irrelevant in the current system.
A floating point error.
First. Past. The. Post.
We are trapped
It's sweet that you think the average person has an actual effect on the direction our government takes. The only way to get stuff done is mass protest, and we sure as hell aren't getting people to protest deleting Edge when we have much, much bigger problems here atm.
You imagine a different election result with more people voting, else why say that. So what happens with more people voting? The lesser evil wins? A 3rd party winning in first past the post voting system with electoral college? Maybe you should say something more thoughtful.
You are right of course - your system is so fucked up that it's not even worth trying, just give up already and hand the keys to Pootin. /s!
Not my system but what are people supposed to do then?
I can talk to people; explain why the current system is bad and suggest more representative voting systems, but I have no idea if that has an outcome better than saying "you should vote, or surrender /s".
Yeees! Edge goes first, followed by Bing
What about Windows 10?
How do I, an outlander, get away with removing above bloatware?
Can I login to my VPN, set the server to, say NL and get to delete it?
Windows 11 only... interesting.
And only in EU.
Now do the same for the rest of the world. India is making their version of recent EU legislations.
And now I have to mess with the system files to get this stuff outside the EU.
No thanks, Linux is for me.
With all the DMA stuff going around I hope the EU take some real steps to Linux and FOSS in general. I mean come on, I can be root by design and fuckup my system if I want to - this is real freedom, gentlemen 🇪🇺
This probably only applies to the Windows N version?
Maybe, but the N version was in response of another regulation that was less stringent in enforcement.
If they only do it in the N version, all other versions become prohibited to sell in the EU. I'd guess this is all versions, and the EU region lock is enforced differently.
"The European Commission has exempted Bing and Microsoft Edge from DMA oversight due to their non-dominant market position."
I wonder if Microsoft's legal department advised Nadella to abide by the spirit of the law (despite the exemption) to prevent possible headaches in the future.
This is 👍 news. I don't use Edge. Google is my search engine, not Bing. 1 may change Edge's default search engine, but I never bothered.
Microsoft has been betting big on ai. They may be OK with "competition", "fair playing field" or "pro-choice" things if ai will give them billions in profit in the future.
It's 👍 that alternativeto.net is still around. I've been going there to find alternate programs.