This is a taste of what you can achieve when regulatory bodies actually have the guts to stand up to megacorps.
In the EEA, much more is on the way:
Bing’s web search from the Start menu and the Edge browser can be uninstalled Third parties can add to the Windows Widgets Board feeds Third parties, like Google or DuckDuckGo, can provide the built-in web search results that Bing once had exclusively Windows users who choose to sync their Microsoft accounts will have their pinned apps and preferences synced, seemingly keeping their EEA-enabled choices Windows will now “always use customers’ configured app default settings for link and file types”
Good to see Microsoft just blatantly confirming that these are anti-competitive measures rather than any sort of technical limitation.
The fact that they only do this in Europe is the biggest “fuck you” to users they could have done.
Well if you’re tired of Microsoft, you can install any of the many Linux distros completely free
I will when I can install all the programs I need that exist on Mac and Windows.
You can. Just install them through WINE or Valve’s Proton compatibility tool.
For non-tech users I think the problem is momentum, for technical users it’s (IMO) Stockholm Syndrome a good percentage of the time.
Really as a technical user I’m moreso afraid of how much time and how much work it’ll cost me. And I know a lot of distros are 1 click installs. That doesn’t matter to me. It’s more the transferring files and getting things set up and settling in again. I’m already settled in on my windows 10 computer. Everything is where it needs to be. I changed to Firefox earlier this month and just that was mentally painful. I can’t imagine the whole OS.
I’m in university too so this would be a day that I could be doing homework etc
Sad USA klepto clowns deny us what really should be common practice, and it’s sad it has to be codified.
I’m going to need to set my language setting to English (France) soon then.
Oops, not part of EEA either, if they’re being pesky with non eu countries, then uk screwed
