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kinther@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

FTC launches probe of Microsoft over bundling

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FTC launches probe of Microsoft over bundling

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kinther@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • cm0002@lemmy.world
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    Microsoft? Anti-Trust bundling violations? What year is this?? 1996‽

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      I WISH it were 1996!!!

      …please take me back to the 90s…I don’t like being old.

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      What about having to switch from a $32/user/month license to a $52/user/month license for just one or two features out of the dozens you end up paying for?

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      Can you source whatever you are countering here?

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    Jake from State Farm told me bundling was a good thing.

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    Guess you can never be 30 years too late

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    The way my Surface Pro was packaged I can completely understand this, all the cardboard was pulled open at one side.

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    Bill Gates about to get extremely friendly with the Trump Administration.

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      That was quick

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    Timely.

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      Just in time for nothing to happen when trumps picks defang the FTC (who has already been defanged plenty in the past)

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