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>>skille+(OP)
The whole thing starts to look like a coup orchestrated by Microsoft

>>tarrud+qf
A few weeks ago my 4yr old Minecraft gamer was playing pretend and said "I'm fighting the biggest boss. THE MICROSOFT BOSS!"

Yeah M$ hasnt had a good reputation. I finally left Windows this year because I'm afraid of them after Win11.

2023/4 will be the year of the Linux Desktop in retrospect. (or at least my family's religion deemed it)

>>hospit+Um
I was wondering how many lines I'd have to scroll down in the comments to see a "M$" reference here on HackerNews.

They're a $2+ trillion dollar company. They're doing something right.

>>CyanLi+tr
they violated free market principles (years ago) that left their users captive. Not home users, every business in the country for the past 30+ years. They are profiting from doing many things wrong, anti-competitive, and illegal. In some alternative universe, there's an earth where you can switch just the OS (and keep all your apps, data, and functionality) and MSFT went bankrupt. Another far-away-galaxy has an earth where MSFT's board got decade prison sentences for breaking antitrust law, another where MSFT paid each victim of spyware $1000 in damages due to faulty product design. We don't live in those realities where bad guys pay.