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.
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.
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.
When they switched the window exiting x button on the “upgrade to windows ten!” Notification to accept the installation rather than just exit the notification.
I’d been exiting that window every day to set up our work computers, as our point of sales solution didn’t support the newer version of windows.
My horror when our shop doors open and the screen turns to “updating to windows 10”
We basically lost a day of sales since we had to do thing sans POS.
When I told the owner that I definitely didn’t accept the installation, he called Microsoft which told him I must have accepted the installation.
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They kneecapped Linux in the early days because they were afraid of what people accepting FOSS as a standard would do to their profits.
Ugly, clunky, inelegant.
Windows = designed by engineers.
Mac = engineered by designers.
the fuck?
it’s a pun with the Tarantino movie. Maybe not totally aproppiate
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.
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.
When they switched the window exiting x button on the “upgrade to windows ten!” Notification to accept the installation rather than just exit the notification.
I’d been exiting that window every day to set up our work computers, as our point of sales solution didn’t support the newer version of windows.
My horror when our shop doors open and the screen turns to “updating to windows 10”
We basically lost a day of sales since we had to do thing sans POS.
When I told the owner that I definitely didn’t accept the installation, he called Microsoft which told him I must have accepted the installation.