MS lost a very similar anti-trust case in the EU in 2010 about IE being part of Windows.
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Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
A lot of talk of antitrust in this thread.
Unfortunately while this behaviour is disgusting and unethical, it’s not exploiting a dominant market position to stifle competition.
To do so teams would need to be in a position of dominance, which (thankfully for anyone forced to use this garbage) it’s simply not.
This sucks, but don’t count on the government doing anything to fix it.
zik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
As someone else mentioned, the weather app does it too on windows 11. Who knows what else? It is exploiting their control of the OS to stifle competition if they’re making it so it’s harder to use the competition’s products. Sure, teams isn’t in a domoninant position, but Microsoft and Windows are. To imply this is just about teams is to ignore the bigger picture. What if they made it so you couldn’t add shortcuts to other browsers? Clearly that’d be too far, right? What’s the difference between that and not allowing links to be opened by another browser?
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
IOS didn’t allow you to set a default browser other than Safari for years and still doesn’t allow third party browsers to use their own web rendering engine.
If the DoJ don’t care about that, they done care that Teams ignores your default browser.
Again, I don’t condone what they’re doing. I just doubt the Justice department will care.