• Anivia@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    How can you fumble a quasi-monopoly on desktop operating systems this hard

    • underisk@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      By changing from a company that produces a product for consumers to a company that produces stock value for share holders.

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      3 months ago

      MS doesn’t care about home users, hasn’t in a long, long time. Notice how they quit fighting piracy ages ago? The money is in commercial use.

      If you’re running a Windows ecosystem, you can fine tune every aspect. If MS takes any of that tuning away, such as forcing AI, they risk killing the cash cow.

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      3 months ago

      Because you think you have a full monopoly and everyone has no option but to put up with it.