Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine::Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company’s rival program, Bing. Nadella testified in a packed Washington, D.C., courtroom as part of the government’s landmark antitrust trial against Google’s parent company, Alphabet. The Justice Department alleges Google has abused the dominance of its ubiquitous search engine to throttle competition and innovation at the expense of consumers, allegations that echo a similar case brought against Microsoft in the late 1990s.
I mean he’s not wrong, but you know, pot, kettle, etc.
“They did what we did, and now we are pissed.”
True pot, the kettle is definitely a slut, but you’re a god damn whore!
Windows is constantly nagging you to switch to Edge when you use a non-Edge browser but apparently Nadella is totally cool with that.
Man, I booted up a Windows laptop I use for 3D printing software for the first time in 6 months. The fucking popup ads for Microsoft shit were out of control. Fuck that shit, I turned it off and started searching for something that works under Linux.
I’ve been using Firefox on Windows for a few years (and Chrome for many years before that) and I can’t remember the last time it nagged me, if it ever did. I’ve sometimes wanted to temporarily switch the default browser back to Edge and the setting to do it hard to find if you don’t know where to look.
Honestly, I’ve only ever seen the first one after a major update. I’ve never personally seen the 2nd one, but I also trim down the start menu and taskbar to be windows 7 like, so 🤷
I mean, he is wrong. Google isn’t the default on Windows, but Chrome and Google search dominate Windows.
Google is the default for Android, so we can discuss that (but that isn’t what Microsoft is complaining about.)
That just leaves macOS and more importantly iPhone. Google pays to be the default there. Is that unfair? Should Apple be able to bid for/charge a company to be the default?
Additionally in all these cases switching is easy.
I won’t deny that being the default is an advantage but it isn’t like users can’t switch. You can remove Google search from your phone and it will work just fine. You can change the defaults on your Safari browser in a few clicks.
To be clear if this case uncovers shady/illegal behavior from Google, fuck 'em, but I’m not seeing it.
Microsoft once bailed out Apple to show they have competition. Google financially supports Firefox so have a modicum of competition.
The Microsoft bailing out apple for competition, is arguably worse than firefox and google. Why? Because apple software required apple hardware.
Microsoft had essentially a monopoly on every piece of computer hardware that was not made by apple, while apple was (and still is) in its own playground with its own glue to eat. They weren’t really competing. If you wanted something that was not expensive apple hardware, Microsoft was the only option.
Now Linux is more of an option, but at 2-3% of the market share, it’s hardly the start of competition.
I believe Microsofts 3 point plan involved these things:
- either a) embrace extend extinguish the competition or b) buy the competition out.
- get retailers to only stock windows on non apple machines.
- give discounts to schools so the kids become familiar with our software over everything else, so our methods become the “industry standard” and are considered “user friendly”
And Microsoft isn’t the only company guilty of this, Adobe, Autodesk, and so many more. And parts 2 and 3 are still issues today that are incredibly hard to stop. Because the vast majority of people, including politicians don’t care or don’t want to switch. Windows, Office and the Adobe suite are practically ingrained into society at this point, and people are more likely to use the familiar, and fear or get frustrated with the unfamiliar.
This is more of a pot calling a pot black. The whole Kettle argument is implying projection. In this they’re not projecting just hypocritical.
Microsoft crying about unfair tactics and monopoly? That’s ironic.
What a classic case of: “I learned it by watching you!”
Let 'em fight and bring each other down a notch, I say.
Since when is giving testimony in a hearing “crying”?
In a pot making ad hominem at the kettle situation the context is of secondary concern.
Missing all the users burning to a crisp inside of both.
Microsoft doesn’t know what good software looks like but it sure knows what anticompetitiveness looks like.
They know exactly what good software looks like. It’s why WSL exists.
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 phoneWindows computer, which had a default browser ofGoogle ChromeInternet Explorer and a default search engine ofGoogleMSN search.Maybe if they actually made them better compared to the then competition, this could’ve turned out differently; mind you, it would still be as bad, because Microsoft, but hey, different nonetheless.
Those were truly dark times
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
They only avoided getting anti-trusted and split up like Ma Bell because W came into power and called off the prosecution. They have zero right to complain about monopolistic practices in the tech industry, lol.
The were actually found guilty of anti trust by the department of justice, but somehow they were able to pay their fines by supplying schools with free copies of windows. Fuck me
DOJ like
Break up Microsoft? No.
Help Microsoft further entrench themselves? Yes!
That’s a bit rich coming from Microsoft.
Their product sucks so much that even their hardest monopolistic practices can’t prevent people from using Google.
“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!”
Hey pot! It’s me kettle! You’re black!
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.
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.
How about shutting up until Windows no longer forces you to use Edge and Bing without the option to change or remove them.
Or doesn’t ship with one drive by default?
