• @Eximius@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Since this sublemmy doesn’t have any requirement for the title to be the same as the source, can we actually have a correct title: “Microsoft abides to laws in EU and does <…>”, or even better “Microsoft is forced under EU law to <…>”.

    The title makes it appear as if it’s out of charity and goodness of their corporate heart. (Fabrication)

    • @Anivia@feddit.org
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      224 days ago

      The title makes it appear as if it’s out of charity and goodness of their corporate heart

      Only to someone that has been living under a rock for the last decade. Everyone else is able to deduct from the “to European users” in the title that the EU forced their hand

      • @Eximius@lemmy.world
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        124 days ago

        Correct. You’re right, without context (or as you put it - living under a rock) one comes to the wrong conclusion.

    • Saik0
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      -725 days ago

      I mean they kind of are? It’s not like M$ couldn’t just pay the fines and keep things as is.

      • @Goretantath@lemm.ee
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        1225 days ago

        No its not, the object of a corp in this modern era we live in is to milk as much money out of the customer without caring about them. The EU laws are the only thing protecting their customers from microsofts greed. microsoft IS being forced to do this and thats a GOOD thing.

        • Saik0
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          -425 days ago

          The only mechanism of “enforcement” that the EU is levying is fees/fines. M$ can absorb a large amount of fees/fines pretty readily if it means complete market capture.

          There is no “force” here when it’s just the “cost of doing business”.

          The EU isn’t raiding M$'s headquarters and capturing board members/C-suites. There is no “force”.

      • @unautrenom@jlai.lu
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        224 days ago

        Microsoft is also after those juicy administrative contracts, and right now, with US-skepticism sky-rocketing everywhere in Europe, they are terrified that the EU might mandate that administrations have to use (or, at least, have to use more in the coming years) European-made software.

        Loosing those EU contracts wouldn’t just be lost money at a time where Microsoft is pumping more and more money into AI with not a single cent of profit on the horizon, it’s also leaving the door open for a competitor to gain worldwide legitimacy and challenge their monopoly in business software.

        And that is worst case scenario for them. That’s why every tech giant has been pourring billions into trying to capture the chinese market. Because where they did not succeed, another brand started taking their place.

        How would you feel if, in the coming years, a good chunk of the EU administration were to switch to Nextcloud? If, following that move, ISPs started providing those same services to end user? If more and more people switched from MS Office to other office suites that ACTUALLY follow standards and are interoperable? Would one’s reasons for staying with the MS Ecosystem in general crumble?

        And if you think that’s not possible, remeber where Yahoo was, and where they are now. In the recent Google trial, there were internal memos showing that Google was actually concerned about DuckDuckGo, and had to prepare a strategy to ripost just in case. DDG has 0.3% percent marketshare.

        All giants have clay legs, it’s just a matter of making them bend the knee :)