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Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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First RCS now this, today has been wild

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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Yeah this isn't as good as it sounds, the other 5 continents are still stuck with all of this garbage.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    They’ll just enable/disable features based on geolocation. I doubt it’ll be a whole different version like in the good old days.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yup, but then you’ll still have the same frustration we have now, running the script every time there’s a feature update and the bloat gets reinstalled. If it wasn’t for games and work I’d be using nothing but macOS and Linux.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I used to be super anti-apple but now buy MacBooks for the longevity. Less ewaste. Over time actually more cost effective. My daily driver is a nearly 9 year old MacBook that I replaced the battery on 2 years ago. Still getting official updates too. My father laid out twice the price of it for a high end XPS machine in 2019 and it died inside 5 years. Apple actually fix manufacturing issues without a huge amount of fuckery like HP/dell. I can’t speak to iPads and iPhones but Macs just last longer so end up being cheaper in the long run.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Skill issue, what's stopping other countries from creating better laws?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    The problem is that showing enough politicians money effectively makes you become the government. There's minimal chance of a law being introduced unless a rich person or corporation backs it, and EU laws would interfere with their shady business practices.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Not big enough to force companies to make large changes. The US is, China and India are. But what about Australia or New Zealand? Or any of the individual south american countries? Too many changes, microsoft or one of the other big players will just pull out of the market, or threaten to pull out.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    If they already have a version compatible with EU law, they will just roll it out instead of removing an entire country from their market.

    Would be a bad business move otherwise.

    Of course, only if the laws don't force even more restrictions.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    will just pull out of the market, or threaten to pull out.

    That would be wonderful. They would no longer be able to enforce their patents in countries they don't trade in; GNU/Linux users worldwide will have (patent infringing) access to the Australian/NZ version of whatever

    It would suck for the games I play that need windows, but it would also give more incentive to those to port them to Linux

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