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[–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Also, has there been anything, in recent memory, that Microsoft has tried to do that was new, and has been a success?

Arguably not totally new, but quite the success: lobbying for big corporate IT to use their shitty products and enforce use of them onto all users.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I feel like that's been going on from pretty much the very start, or at the very least right after they put a chokehold on OEMs for them to put windows on desktops by default. Have they been recently pushing even harder or in newer ways I'm not aware of?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    As someone who felt forced out of a corporate IT environment due to their software hindering my workflow, I would say they have been quite successful in forcing competitors out of corporat intranets. The environment that I left ended up removing LibreOffice from the internal software catalogue, probably due to successful lobbying.

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