I’m helping a friend of mine writing a long essay exposing the abusive, monopolistic and anti-consumer practices of Microsoft. First, we’ve created some sort of table of contents with the different topics we want to cover and now we’re gathering sources for each of these topics.
Microsoft is a huge corporation with a big influence on media and although if you dig enough you can find useful sources, they’ve also made an extremely good job at hiding bad press from search engines.
We’ve scrolled through Hacker News, other links aggregators and sites like TechRights and we’ve found a good amount of articles against Microsoft. But we’re sure there has to be more. So that’s kinda why we’re asking.
Bullet points for the sections we’ve thought of (suggestions are welcome too):
* The Microsoft Monopoly
* Microsoft and the web
* Internet Explorer
* Microsoft Edge
* Microsoft Windows Monopoly
* Microsoft and the Governments
* Education
* Healthcare
* Microsoft Gaming Empire
* Windows Backdoors (not sure where this section belongs)
* Work with the NSA
* Microsoft loves Open Source (microsoft infiltration in foss)
* Microsoft and the OSI
* Github
* Github Copilot
* VSCode
* War on GPL
* Microsoft loves Linux and BSD?
* Embrace, extend, extinguish
* Our lord, Bill Gates
* The media empire
* Twitter censorship
* Bill Gates the philanthropist
* Big Pharma
* Bill and Jeffrey Epstein
Edit: typos and removed the pun “Kill Bill Gates” because it seemed inappropriate.
I’m helping a friend of mine writing a long essay
I think the authorities refer to this as a manifesto after locating it.
an anti-microsoft manifesto? That sounds nice, but I doubt it will ever reach that many people, we’re planning on putting it on a quick website of it’s own and just let it float around the web.
You know that’s not why I said that.
Edit: typos and removed the pun “Kill Bill Gates” because it seemed inappropriate.
Just an innocent movie reference
Kill Bill Gates
the fuck?
it’s a pun with the Tarantino movie. Maybe not totally aproppiate
I don’t perceive that as offensive
The set the standards, and then break them. They have been doing this since early versions of Office.
They don’t finish porting old applets to new Windows before they release another new Windows.
They unfairly use their market position to push their products and services. Edge, Onedrive, Teams, etc.
Windows Updates, need I continue?
The System applet side by side with the legacy Control Panel sucks so bad. Is that setting here, there, or everywhere? Want to combine task bar icons? Fuck you, we haven’t rewritten that part yet.
They kneecapped Linux in the early days because they were afraid of what people accepting FOSS as a standard would do to their profits.
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Ugly, clunky, inelegant.
Windows = designed by engineers.
Mac = engineered by designers.
just created an account on Lemmy and this is the first thing that catches my eyes lol. great stuff. I would love to read it when it is done.
They also killed Atom text editor in favor of VSCode.
In all fairness, VSCode is awesome. And I used to be ABM (Anything But Microsoft).
Yeah but they hide some really useful extensions behind official VSCode with telemetry wall. Other than that it’s a cool editor.
Bill was a big part of how proprietary software became a thing (and not just “a thing”, but “the default”) in the first place. Just think what the world would be like today without that particular form of artificial scarcity.
Embrace, extend, and exterminate, 'nuff said. They can fuck off with their shitty business practices.
2 words: Visual Studio
2 more words: teams statuses
Forced Windows OS patches were the final nail for me. One of them in the early days of Windows 10 Pro conflicted with graphics drivers and completely soft-bricked my PC.
Chapter on this prick
