Google’s claim that search users have choice is “bogus,” Microsoft CEO tells judge::Google’s search dominance creates “vicious cycle,” Satya Nadella testified.

  • @fubo@lemmy.world
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    122 years ago

    Microsoft has been making users’ choices “bogus” since at least Windows 95.

  • @dangblingus@lemmy.world
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    92 years ago

    You know what would be refreshing? If someone in business could actually hold themselves accountable. For literally anything.

  • @FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    292 years ago

    Funny they should say that, considering that Bing is deeply integrated into Windows, and users have literally no choice of another search engine.

    • @4lan@lemmy.world
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      182 years ago

      And if you accidentally open edge you can’t even close the application without going through the setup process.

      They literally tried to force you to make a Microsoft account as set up and make it seem like you have no choice other than to make one.

      Microsoft is more guilty than Google

      Pro tip: enter no@thankyou.com and any password to bypass it

      • @pazukaza@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        They don’t realize how much they fucked up when they forced users to download the Bing app in order to use GPT in Bing.

        They had the perfect chance to hijack Google by making users switch their default search engine in Chrome. But no, they had to get greedy as fuck, and now Bing is dead again.

        They went all-in and lost. Who is using Bing search now? Nobody, people want to use Chrome.

        I’d have probably used Bing for a longer time and maybe would have gotten used to it (only for GPT) if they hadn’t forced me to download their app.

  • danielfgom
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    62 years ago

    Hypocrite! Every time there’s a Windows update it makes Edge the default browser again. Without the user asking. They should look in mirror!

      • @PR_freak@programming.dev
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        42 years ago

        It sneakily asks for Microsoft to select the most secure configuration for your system (or something similar)

        Which means setting edge and bing as default

      • @emptiestplace@lemmy.ml
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        22 years ago

        Today I was working on a 2019 server. I clicked on IE to download Firefox and it asked me if I wanted Edge. I didn’t want to do anything that might interfere with existing services running, so I said no. I took a phone call, and when I came back … welcome to Edge, I’m so fuckin great - let’s get started!

        I’ve been doing this since the 80s, but this was a surprisingly fresh experience for me.