First RCS now this, today has been wild

  • @ilikehangers@lemmy.world
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    132 years ago

    This is cool and all, but why do we always stop at Microsoft? I think it would be more impactful in 2023 if we can uninstall Safari from iOS devices and Chrome from Android?

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    152 years ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Microsoft has published a new blog post which details how Windows 11 will be made compliant with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the European Economic Area (EEA.)

    To be compliant, Microsoft has made several changes to the OS, which now allows users to choose between providers and uninstall most in-box apps.

    The company describes these changes as specific to Windows 11 PCs in the EEA, so it’s unclear if users outside this area will be able to utilize these functions.

    These changes will rollout in preview on Windows 11 in the Insider Beta Channel in the coming weeks, and will become generally available early next year.

    The EEA is an economic and political union that spans 27 countries in the European and surrounding area.

    In the case of Microsoft, this means not forcing users to use Edge or Bing, and ensuring the OS is interoperable with other services where necessary.


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  • @BroBot9000@lemmy.world
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    ABOUT FUCKING TIME. Take edge and shove it so far up your data tracking sphincter of a face hole.

    Can we please get these laws on a global level.

  • donuts
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    I’m a Linux guy and I don’t really care about Windows, but I’m glad to see this happening and every day I thank Europe for being the main entity fighting for regulation of big tech monopolies, because America is really failing.

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      EU is very much a mixed bag. On the one hand, they do this, on the other hand, they tried to ban P2P encryption and microtargetted religious and elderly in resisting countries, feeding them the classic “it’s for the children’s safety” lies.

      • @maynarkh@feddit.nl
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        11 year ago

        they tried to ban P2P encryption

        They recently enshrined it as an unalienable human right as a world first.

      • @miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
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        Though we have to remind ourselves that it’s mainly the EU Commission who does this.

        The Supreme Court spoke out against it from the very beginning, the Parliament voted against it, it’s really only the Commission who doesn’t want to understand that EU law applies to them, too.

        Quite a few positions in there that need to be held by new people who understand the damn law.

    • @Treczoks@lemmy.world
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      62 years ago

      I wonder if Windows in Non-EU areas does not have this kind of choice.

      Well, does not matter, I use Linux, too.

      • @F04118F@feddit.nl
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        I use Linux (one that’s based on Arch btw) Make one guess at:

        • my diet
        • what I think is the best text editor

        Seriously, how am I supposed to keep quiet when I find a clearly superior choice? Especially when most people feel a psychological barrier to trying it, that turns out to be not nearly as big as the adcantages.

          • @F04118F@feddit.nl
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            22 years ago

            Exactly! I use neovim as a full IDE (got started quickly using the nvchad template). And I think you know which “at least meat-reduced” diet is most associated with evangelizing ;)

          • @F04118F@feddit.nl
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            32 years ago

            Points for the editor, but weirdly enough, not a lot of coffee (<1 per day) and I didn’t drink coffee at all before a few weeks ago.

      • @ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        102 years ago

        Hey hey hey, don’t just go around generalizing. Not all Linux users are like that (but I am, and I use arch BTW).

        Like I’m sure we’re bound to find at least ONE Linux user who doesn’t tell.

    • @howler@lemmy.world
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      1652 years ago

      Its nuts that during the Obama admin, all anyone cared about was the threat of zero privacy. Now everyone in the US has surrendered to it, because our politicians have sold our digital privacy rights to the tech companies.

      • @Contend6248@feddit.de
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        If we had actual IT giants in Europe, this would look very different.

        I’ve seen how the car industry in Germany only got a slap on the wrist because of Dieselgate and even got the chance to send out advertisement payed by the government.

        I feel like the only reason stuff like this gets pushed so hard is because we try to slow down the current IT giants until we get our shit together.

        I’m glad that we do it, but i wouldn’t say we are better than anyone else.

        • @isles@lemmy.world
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          442 years ago

          Thanks for the honest take, a lot of people get caught up in the idea that if an organization does something that aligns with them, they are good or doing it for the same reasons.

        • @thehatfox@lemmy.world
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          302 years ago

          There is a lot of protectionism at the heart of the EU. They are quite happy to heavily regulate Big Tech when it’s not based in their own market. Unfortunately they don’t have quite the same passion for nurturing the European tech industry as much as stifling the foreign ones.

          They are it purely fighting these fights for the greater good, or they wouldn’t also be pushing things like the recent browser certificate debacle.

        • Lev_Astov
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          42 years ago

          Yeah because dieselgate was a travesty and all companies have a moral obligation to find ways around the idiocy of the US EPA as they actively make our cars more harmful to the environment by writing poorly thought out rules that encourage larger vehicles as well as completely failing to understand how to calculate diesel emissions for vehicles in a sensible manner.

        • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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          42 years ago

          Nah, it still would be much harder.

          Because the EU exists out of many different countries with each their own government.

          To lobby something through you have to bribe the majority of them, instead of just one.

  • @blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
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    1042 years ago

    So apparently having consumer-friendly laws does in fact lead to better products. Cool.

    Perhaps the USA and other countries should follow the EU’s good example on this.

        • @KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca
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          62 years ago

          Ya, then just install the N version. It’s not some weird region locked thing. If you tell Microsoft you don’t have a product key, you’ll get a list of windows versions you can install, and you just select the N version.

          • @Squizzy@lemmy.world
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            12 years ago

            They give windows away for free? If you don’t have a key wouldn’t they tell you to buy it?

            • @KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca
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              12 years ago

              Windows put a watermark on your desktop and locks you out of personalization if you don’t pay.

              Watermark can be disabled with a simple registry editor change. Or the entirety of windows can just be activated with a single command prompt command.

              Even if you’re not into pirating, you can use windows without a key without issues. They honestly don’t care.

              • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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                22 years ago

                Their main income is from businesses. They don’t care what an individual user does.

                That said, most motherboards already have a license key for Windows attached. Or you can just use a Windows 7 or 8 key you have laying around. I believe they wanted to stop being able to do this, but it still isn’t implemented.

  • kubica
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    I’m a bit surprised, this time it took them so long I thought they stopped about even pretending.

  • Norgur
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    1292 years ago

    Hey, 'Muricans, how come we need to pressure every company into compliance for you?

  • asudox
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    122 years ago

    This is the first time I saw a post get over 1000 upvotes in 15 hours.