Nextcloud Forms European Coalition - Begins Antitrust Actions Against Microsoft - FOSS Force
fossforce.comNextcloud, The Document Foundation and 28 others are pushing the EU and member states to end noncompetitive actions by Microsoft and others.
we are asking the antitrust authorities in Europe to enforce a level playing field, giving customers a free choice and to give competition a fair chance.
Well… let’s see where this goes.
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By the way, isn’t pre-installing laptops with windows also forcing users? I wonder what the legal difference is of doing so through a proxy as opposed to the office suite situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j9j-Ywjmbk
Ok, so the difference is: (1) option to uninstall windows and get refunded (2) macbooks support windows drivers, and it is possible to install and run windows on them (3) osx is free. Is any of that not the case for pre-installed office365?
OSX is not free
That’s the wrong I’d most like to right. Especially on the “clone machines” from Dell, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, HP etc. That is the thing that would really create a level playing field, imo.
And it ought to apply to Android too.
I always assumed I pay extra for the OS. The last few times I went laptop shopping there always was an option to buy the Laptop without an OS aswell…
Wow - that’s not been my experience at all. May I ask which country you live in?
I saw that in France, however every non-tech-savvy person will pay extra to get their Window$ Windows installed (There is also a big chance they only Windows and MacOS)
I’m from Austria. I used to buy from smaller retailers but I also noticed it when buying from Fujitsu for work
FINALLY somebody is doing something.
I hope it’s not too late, and I hope it will be effective. This is a really good thing
Microsoft’s New Windows Prompts Try To Stop People Downloading Chrome
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/12/02/1441258/microsofts-new-windows-prompts-try-to-stop-people-downloading-chrome
Yeah - I read that… carrying on as they’ve always done.