10mo ago

Microsoft complies with EU's DMA, allowing uninstalling of OneDrive, Edge, Bing, and more

Microsoft has adhered to the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) by enabling Windows 11 users to uninstall Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Edge, and Microsoft Bing, and more.

alternativeto.net /news/2024/3/microsoft-complies-with-eu-s-dma-allowing-uninstalling-of-onedrive-edge-bing-and-more/

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Hey Europe

--America
- Maybe if you all started voting...? For real, dudes, you need to wake up.
  
  Be honest. Do you think either of their 2 parties will spend any time going after their own big tech like this? Big tech has their fingers deep into politics pockets.
  
  First. Past. The. Post.
  We are trapped
  
  It's sweet that you think the average person has an actual effect on the direction our government takes. The only way to get stuff done is mass protest, and we sure as hell aren't getting people to protest deleting Edge when we have much, much bigger problems here atm.
  
  You imagine a different election result with more people voting, else why say that. So what happens with more people voting? The lesser evil wins? A 3rd party winning in first past the post voting system with electoral college? Maybe you should say something more thoughtful.

Yeees! Edge goes first, followed by Bing

How do I, an outlander, get away with removing above bloatware?
Can I login to my VPN, set the server to, say NL and get to delete it?

What about Windows 10?

Now do the same for the rest of the world. India is making their version of recent EU legislations.

And now I have to mess with the system files to get this stuff outside the EU.
No thanks, Linux is for me.

Windows 11 only... interesting.
- And only in EU.

With all the DMA stuff going around I hope the EU take some real steps to Linux and FOSS in general. I mean come on, I can be root by design and fuckup my system if I want to - this is real freedom, gentlemen 🇪🇺

This probably only applies to the Windows N version?
- Maybe, but the N version was in response of another regulation that was less stringent in enforcement.
  If they only do it in the N version, all other versions become prohibited to sell in the EU. I'd guess this is all versions, and the EU region lock is enforced differently.

"The European Commission has exempted Bing and Microsoft Edge from DMA oversight due to their non-dominant market position."
I wonder if Microsoft's legal department advised Nadella to abide by the spirit of the law (despite the exemption) to prevent possible headaches in the future.
This is 👍 news. I don't use Edge. Google is my search engine, not Bing. 1 may change Edge's default search engine, but I never bothered.
Microsoft has been betting big on ai. They may be OK with "competition", "fair playing field" or "pro-choice" things if ai will give them billions in profit in the future.
It's 👍 that alternativeto.net is still around. I've been going there to find alternate programs.

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