I just got this popup while playing New vegas. I don’t even use chrome, i’ve switched to firefox. How can this be allowed? Also, this is Win10

  • squiblet@kbin.social
    616·
    1 year ago

    Anticompetitive is a matter of antitrust law. Microsoft doesn’t currently have a monopoly on operating systems in the way they did 25 years ago.

    • Lmaydev@programming.devEnglish
      312·
      1 year ago

      Looking online in January they had a 74% share of desktops.

      Linux is certainly dominating in the cloud but that doesn’t really make much difference here.

      • avapa@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        74% market share for desktop OS is actually a lot less than I thought. Guess macOS had a solid comeback

        • Lmaydev@programming.devEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          For desktop and laptop computers, Microsoft’s Windows is the most used at 69%, followed by Apple’s macOS at 17%, and Google’s ChromeOS at 3.2% (in the US up to 8.0%), and desktop Linux at 2.9%. In addition, 5% is attributed to “unknown” operating systems - which are likely forms of BSD or obscure varieties of Linux.[4]

          From Wikipedia. Not sure when the numbers are from exactly.

          Apple has been slowly growing for years. Google took a little with their Chromebooks but they never really took off. Linux continues to grow steadily but is still pretty rare in desktop environments.

        • squiblet@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          it’s also notable that Microsoft has no realistic mobile OS of their own, and a huge amount of what used to be done on a desktop OS is now on mobile. Operating an ecommerce site for instance, 65% of the traffic is from mobile phones, even browser vs apps.