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Should we fear Microsoft's monopoly?

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Re: Should we fear Microsoft's monopoly?

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Post by neutronicus »

pjmlp wrote: post #53
neutronicus wrote: post #30

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It definitely seems like Visual Studio is no longer feeling the love. IMO Visual Studio presented an incredible opportunity to sell Copilot. Implement a MCP server, give the LLMs in Copilot all the tools available to a human developer to analyze and debug a codebase. Instead it's just a shitty autocomplete you have to turn off in order to get the good, IntelliSense autocomplete working. Our parent company went hilt-d…

You need to jump into VS 2026 for those goodies. It was so rushed out, that many of the dialog windows on the new settings pane show tiny VS 2022 settings dialogs as popups.

Wait, can VS2026 Copilot make tool calls to bring only relevant type and function definitions into Context?

If yes, that would be great! I've been trying to bodge that together with clangd and emacs LSP, but the amount of yak shaving to get clangd actually working on our codebase (on which Visual Studio just works for the most part) is prohibitive for actually accomplishing anything.

Our codebase is millions of line of very non-standard C++ (some automatically translated from Pascal years ago), and single files can get up to 50,000 lines.

So a LLM really needs (just like us human developers!) the ability to skip around and only read the parts that matter.

Re: Should we fear Microsoft's monopoly?

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Post by deaux »

johnwheeler wrote: post #29
deaux wrote: post #6

Awful piece and so incredibly discouraging to hear that this kind of person has influence at such an organization. They must have some personal incentive in one way or another to keep close to the status quo. Anyone large organization has ever moved away from dependency on US BigTech has done so piece by piece. China is the prime example. They've been decreasing their dependencies every year back from when it was at…

I think China generally pirates all of our software in the U.S.

SaaS aren't directly pirateable. And they do so less and less in general, that's my point. 20 years ago, sure, everything was pirated US software. Now they've replaced it piece by piece.

And software is just a small part, the physical world is nuch more importance. There too they've become more independent incrementally.

Re: Should we fear Microsoft's monopoly?

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Post by CharlieDigital »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #58
CharlieDigital wrote: post #22

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Well, I don't know how you define it, but here's Wiki's first paragraph[0]: > A monopoly (from Greek μόνος, mónos, 'single, alone' and πωλεῖν, pōleîn, 'to sell') is a market in which one person or company is the only supplier of a particular good or service. A monopoly is characterized by a lack of economic competition to produce a particular thing, a lack of viable substitute goods, and the possibility of a high mon…

You are using the dictionary definition of monopoly, not the legal definition according to any particular nation’s laws or looking at how it has been enforced/on what basis, which is the only version that really matters in this discussion. I imagine everyone on HN knows that simply linking Wikipedia is generally considered little more than a snarky, passive aggressive response. I don’t need the dictionary or Wikipedi…

Please cite the legal definition and let's have a discussion on whether it meets the legal definition or not.

Re: Should we fear Microsoft's monopoly?

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Post by renegade-otter »

cholantesh wrote: post #31
renegade-otter wrote: post #7

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Gates cared about products deeply. This lot? They only care about the shareholder, not the customer, and we all know how that turned out for GE and Boeing. It's a long path, but it's a path of degradation. I am pretty sure the the file explorer is "slow" because it's doing cloud sync crap in order to collect my data.

Considering Gates was instrumental in bringing MS and OpenAI together, I think this is just greatmanning.

Where is this information even coming from?

https://businesschief.com/news/why-bill-gates-warned-microso...

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