Who can I send an email to in the EU who's willing to investigate this? There's got to be some institution that gives a shit.
Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
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Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#122>Many of those who commented in the linked reddit thread actually praise Microsoft Edge, explaining that they already installed the new browser, and it’s just as good as Chrome or Firefox.
Completely organic too, I presume.
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Windows division has never really been part of the "New Microsoft", it seems from the outside.
Microsoft didn't buy Github out of the goodness of their heart. They also didn't buy it because of it's significant revenue, a couple hundred million is probably a marketing budget to Microsoft, not something that drives the bottom line. Microsoft also didn't buy it to score appearance points with the socially conscious dev community that populated most of Github, although it was a nice PR story for a bit. You could…
I shudder to think of the kind of code that a machine-learning product trained on the full set of public GitHub repositories would produce. It might be better than what Frontpage used to spit out, or Word, when you used the save as HTML option, but I'm not sanguine about that sort of thing ever putting anyone out of work.
Are they working on something like that? I'm sure that there are people doing so. Will it eventually trickle in some limited way as a productivity enhancement into Visual Studio or VS Code? Probably. Is it going to be some kind of magical no-code silver bullet that obviates the need for programmers? Not a snowball's chance in hell.
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does Google have to do with any of this?
People are complaining about Microsoft pushing Edge on Windows. Google pushes Chrome on google.com all the time. Frequently with some negative comment about your current browser. They may be less negative now than what I remember, haven't looked at one in forever.
I'm sure Google is shady in this, and many other ways, too, but I really don't see how it's important in this discussion. If Google is doing the same thing then I hope they choke on their Bacardi and Coke, too, but the news is that Microsoft is also doing it now.
I'm not sure what the adequate reaction here would have been. Should I have added a "P.S. oh yeah by the way Google is also doing this, don't forget to hate on them, too?" line in my original reply, for completeness?
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Windows division has never really been part of the "New Microsoft", it seems from the outside.
Microsoft didn't buy Github out of the goodness of their heart. They also didn't buy it because of it's significant revenue, a couple hundred million is probably a marketing budget to Microsoft, not something that drives the bottom line. Microsoft also didn't buy it to score appearance points with the socially conscious dev community that populated most of Github, although it was a nice PR story for a bit. You could…
I think the OP thing is bad.
What you're suggesting (if they could pull it off) I would welcome. Either it turns into (an even worse than now) corporatist dystopia and there's turmoil before a reset, or it opens up for "everyone" and we're closer to post-scarcity.
But most likely they'll automate some stuff, because this isn't real AI, and I can adapt faster than they can and do stuff their models can't.
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#126Back to the anti-competitive behavior that got them in trouble years ago. Someone inside Microsoft at a senior level needs to intervene here with the marketing teams and tell them to stop.
How is this different than getting an ad for Chrome when you go to google.com?
That's wrong, too, but the subject under discussion here is Microsoft.
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Windows division has never really been part of the "New Microsoft", it seems from the outside.
Microsoft didn't buy Github out of the goodness of their heart. They also didn't buy it because of it's significant revenue, a couple hundred million is probably a marketing budget to Microsoft, not something that drives the bottom line. Microsoft also didn't buy it to score appearance points with the socially conscious dev community that populated most of Github, although it was a nice PR story for a bit. You could…
AI is a good thing if it takes all jobs.
The bad thing is the non-stop messing with standards and EEE. Because it makes existing jobs unbearable.
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#128Back to the anti-competitive behavior that got them in trouble years ago. Someone inside Microsoft at a senior level needs to intervene here with the marketing teams and tell them to stop.
How is this different than getting an ad for Chrome when you go to google.com?
Why should it be any different? Both are abuses of a monopoly position.
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Again"? When did they stop? You mean that hypocritical "MS loves Linux" stuff while their partners are digging the grave for FOSS like in Munich?
Saying "again" has zero bearing on frequency, unless you mean to suggest that every single action that MS and it's individual employees take are "shady stuff," continuously, without exception.
Of course it does involve frequency, "again" can either mean something that's happening very often OR something that stopped happening and started again.
It's a matter of corporate strategy and has nothing to do with each worker.
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#130I dread the web we will get if Firefox dies. Could you imagine the only major browser being created by the largest advertiser?