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I mean he’s not wrong, but you know, pot, kettle, etc.

Microsoft crying about unfair tactics and monopoly? That's ironic.

I don't care about either, just want better search back. Does anyone remember when you could search for a specific product or part and the first link was to the manufacturer? Now you have to sort through sponsored content, various retailers, link spam, paywalled articles, video reviews (usually made by bots), and social media posts to get to the manufacturers website.

Microsoft doesn't know what good software looks like but it sure knows what anticompetitiveness looks like.

Microsoft demands a level playing field so that its own unfair practices are able to compete in the free market of unfair practices. It’s the American way.

Kettle, meet pot

Nadella said Google's dominance was due to agreements that made it the default browser on smartphones and computers.

Google gained dominance in the early 2000s when the dominant platform was the ~~smart phone~~ Windows computer, which had a default browser of ~~Google Chrome~~ Internet Explorer and a default search engine of ~~Google~~ MSN search.

Fuck you Microsoft. Your entire existence is based upon unfair monopolistic practices, I still remember having to build sites for IE6 you sick fucks.

You spent millions literally on sabotaging your competition, and you're still not able to create quality software yourself. You get to say nothing here.

Microsoft should be broken up, bankruptcy would be even better

Says CEO of the company which created browser wars and broke standards to keep the monopoly. Same company which has so many lawsuits against them for the very same "unfair practices". Am not saying Google is a saint, they are creepy in their own way, but boy is this pot calling kettle black.

That's a bit rich coming from Microsoft.

"We totally would have established a monopoly through blatantly unfair business practices, but we had to be a little careful because everyone was still watching us closely after the last time we did that, and those weasely sons of bitches at Google snuck in there first this time!"

Pot. Kettle. Black.

Rich person complaining about other rich person being scummier than them and getting ahead.

"They got away with more than me, how's that fair," questions Tech CEO.

Hey pot! It's me kettle! You're black!

Besides the hypocrisy, Google won search by having the best idea. There's a reason we make jokes about Altavista and Ask Jeeves.

Google then used their position on search to take over a hundred other markets. That's the real problem, but that's not the argument being made here.

Fuck this guy, Microsoft is just as guilty. Their business practices are based around limiting competition and exterminating it, the only reason they don't have a monopoly on cloud platforms is because they were to busy trying to sell overpriced Windows server, SQL and office licenses to businesses and Amazon jumped into the cloud business first. Look at what they're doing with Activision-Blizzard, the Indiana Jones video game from Bethesda, Starfield exclusivity etc. in the gaming space. This shit is part of the reason why I run Linux.

How about shutting up until Windows no longer forces you to use Edge and Bing without the option to change or remove them.

You mean like Microsoft with Internet Explorer, MS Office and Windows?

Duck Duck Go > Google > Bing

If the world was fair, both Microsoft and Google search engines would be left behind in favor of a federated and open source solution.

The next article will be "Google CEO says unfair practices by Microsoft led to its dominance in the desktop OS space."

I very much agree with the general sentiment here about Microsoft's substantial hypocrisy and what a bad look it is, but isn't it likely to the benefit of consumers if these large companies are helping fuel legitimate antitrust lawsuits at each other?

That's rich coming from the company that tries to force new windows operating systems on people, and installs its own boot loader when running Linux partitions.

Ironic...

I'm no fan of either of these corporate entities approach to antitrust, but surely Microsoft is having a laugh right?

look who's talking!!!

Just look at what Microsoft is doing when selling Azure. Suddenly, they can offer good rebates on licenses. Sounds like unfair monopoly to me...

No ms, your search offering was such utter shit that only the AI boom saved you from the death it deserved and your attack on google comes to late - google is already falling from its pedistal on its own because they've enshitified the service.

Okay Microsoft. Good thing your business track record includes 0 unfair practices in your history.

Pot; Kettle. Kettle; pot.

Oh fuck off Microsoft. Nobody wants to hear that shit from you. If you had your way our fucking cars would be powered by edge, and would tell us to play raid shadow legends every time we turned it on.

Good, now the in-fighting among the tech titans shall begin.

Its funny this is coming from a company who aggressively pushes its own products in its os.