Microsoft are paying the price for being Microsoft and being big American intrusive greedy tech. Nothing to do with Trump.

As soon as Microsoft saw how Google and Android were doing it, they copied it. Windows 11 is effectively spyware.

Seems like the anti-Trump PR is already starting. These greedy sacks of crap are going to blame him for their pro-fascist support, their greed and their low quality products.

It's not just about Trump though. EU has long been in talks with American companies about EU citizen data not being allowed to leave EU and asking if the companies can guarantee that US isn't allowed to access the data, which companies have not been able tp guarantee.

"boohoo people don't trust our spyware anymore" shame on you

MS is paying the price for Windows sucking.

It couldn't possibly be because of Micro$lop's hostility toward end users, privacy, and resistance to rent extraction. 🙄

Microsoft sucks more than Trump because of how long they have been at it. Everybody, including americans, should be moving away from them.

I mean even if Europe and the US had a utopian relationship, having government systems run on a foreign country's black box gives them so much power over you.

Let’s be real. Trump had help from Microsoft on this one.

Let's fucking go!

Good, it’s time this parasitic company hit its comeuppance and countries started taking responsibility for themselves.

On that note, it’s also time open source does a v2 on office software.

LibreOffice is frankly not a good piece of software. I tried it this week. The interface is laggy on an incredibly beefy machine, it’s confusing (e.g. with the first thing you see is a pop of with 5 different UI configuration options to choose from), and doesn’t scale well to high DPI displays.

Just like how GIMP took a decade before the community acknowledged it was not a viable UI despite being packed with good features, LibreOffice needs a refresh for modern and low power computing

Oh lets not forget microsoft's actions here.

If you are still using Bill Gates to represent Microsoft, I think your article is disingenuous and in bad faith.

can be largely attributed to Trump’s hostile policy towards Europe,

Kicking American corporations in the wallet is the only way to get their attention.

If it happens enough, maybe they'll redirect some of their bribe money towards fixing the source of the problem.

Microslop didn't need the help, they would've done it all on their own.

They might not have openly endorsed him but they sure as fuck gave him money.