Microsoft has been abusing their monopoly for a lot longer than Google. I wish they would put that target on their back. There are so many remedies I can think up straight away.
Force them to sell off Windows. Force them to not have special pricing for specific OEMs under any special agreements or terms. Force them to unbundle Edge from windows. Force them to continually support and fully implement competing standards into their products. Edit: Force them to sell off Visual Studio, Direct X and .Net
neonsunset · 2h ago
.NET is an open-source product. How would you sell it?
bobajeff · 2h ago
.NET Framework isn't and I assume they have some sort of ownership of the trademark which allows them to name their stuff .Net blank.
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bediger4000 · 2h ago
Yes. If Google is an illegal monopoly, Microsoft is too. I can only guess that since Microsoft rarely makes it into the "Big Tech" naughty list, they're doing an appropriate dollar amount of lobbying, where other companies didn't.
Does Microsoft hold much cryptocurrency?
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rbanffy · 3h ago
They just laid off 3% of their workforce.
PaulHoule · 3h ago
That kind of company is always laying off 3% of the workforce.
I decided that I never wanted to work at Intel in the early 00's when it became clear that they had a periodic ritual of laying off 10% of their engineers. I left academica because I didn't think I was good at musical chairs and no way would I want to work somewhere where I might get laid off just because they want to lay off 10% of the workers.
Force them to sell off Windows. Force them to not have special pricing for specific OEMs under any special agreements or terms. Force them to unbundle Edge from windows. Force them to continually support and fully implement competing standards into their products. Edit: Force them to sell off Visual Studio, Direct X and .Net
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Does Microsoft hold much cryptocurrency?
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I decided that I never wanted to work at Intel in the early 00's when it became clear that they had a periodic ritual of laying off 10% of their engineers. I left academica because I didn't think I was good at musical chairs and no way would I want to work somewhere where I might get laid off just because they want to lay off 10% of the workers.