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I mean they were already thoroughly whipped and fined, forced to add a browser choice window, then made to pay a fine again after this browser choice window 'accidentally' didn't work anymore. Time for another fine? I mean I have no clue where that money ends up at, I like to think it goes into IT subsidies, but still.


>Time for another fine?

Sure! I mean it's working so well at changing corporate behavior, why would we want to stop now?

Things like this are why I advocate for Corporate Jail time and a Corporate Death Penalty.


If the fines are more regular and serious, they will mould corporate behaviour ( e.g. see GDPR). If MS get fined a couple of billion each for this Edge crap, and for bundling Edge and Teams into Windows 11, they might think again and take another decade before trying again.

But as i said, the best solution is to break them up. Split them into Azure; Windows+enterprise software à la AD; Exchange, etc., Office365; Surface.




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