abadideaMicrosoft acts like it’s lost all institutional knowledge of the Internet Explorer court case, which is pretty weird because I was twelve and the institution of me retains knowledge of it https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/3/23709297/microsoft-edge-force-outlook-teams-web-links-open
Ken Brucker@0xabad1dea why do I hate thee Windows? Let me count the ways.
Kaelef 
@0xabad1dea Sort of funny watching Microsoft put so much effort into getting itself a decent browser in Edge only to 'enshittify' it so quickly. I only wish more people understood why it's important to use/support Firefox (or other alternatives) more often than Chrome.
2xfo@0xabad1dea ew ew ew
Professor Emeritus Blake Y Rat@0xabad1dea If you see Apple getting away with the same shit for years and years and years without any legislative response, then you'd probably start assuming you also could get away with said shit.
Jacob Christian Munch-Andersen@blakeyrat @0xabad1dea Yeah, and just to state the obvious: Apple shouldn't get away with that shit either.
@NohatCoder @0xabad1dea Of course; I agree entirely. It's just if you're a little kid and you see Billy just stealing from the cookie jar 12 times a day and the teacher never catches him, you'd be pretty tempted to take one of those delicious cookies too.
@NohatCoder @0xabad1dea Or put another way, it's not that Microsoft doesn't *remember* the monopoly legislation of years ago, it's that they can see it's demonstrably not an issue any more, and hasn't been for decades.
If anything the surprise is it took this long for them to start replicating the same behaviors.
Kevin Karhan 
@0xabad1dea And they forgot #SouthKorea / #ROK & #EU Regulators forcing them to stop blocking #competitiors.
But since @EU_Commission themselves are grossly violating #Procurement #legislation, they'll likely get away with that shit!
Tachibana Kanade@0xabad1dea Last I was aware, Microsoft’s corporate culture seemed specifically designed to eliminate institutional knowledge.
@h0m54r someone once told me that their unhelpfulness with getting NTFS support into other systems had less to do with not wanting to help and more to do with literally nobody knowing how it worked…
ZetaZetan@0xabad1dea I mean the most likely result of this is that people stop using Outlook and Teams (neither of which are the leaders for email or chat respectively.)
With everything in the cloud and going through companies like Google, Microsoft's controls over the levers of computing are more limited than they once were, so I'm dubious that something like this will even have the effect that they want.
@ZetaZetan if you are using outlook or teams it is because your boss said that's what you're using, you can't just stop because of an inconvenience.
kira :3@0xabad1dea windows has been turning into such a dumpster fire tbh
caseedo@0xabad1dea MS are fookers for sure, but the're not the only ones. Yahoo is also pretty bold about changing your search provider without asking.
Aaron Williamson@0xabad1dea I suspect there's also some degree of calculation here -- Windows (and Outlook and Teams) is less dominant and antitrust regulators are less active than either was at the time of the last antitrust action.
ShachihokoForcing Outlook and Teams to open web links in Edge seems more likely to drive users (and corporate IT departments) to adopt non-Microsoft clients for email and chat than to increase usage of Edge.
Checkpoint Charlie XCX@0xabad1dea conveniently for them, the courts have also lost all institutional knowledge of it