The 10-week trial, set to begin Tuesday, amps up efforts to rein in Big Tech by targeting the core search business that turned Google into a $1.7 trillion behemoth.
Not that Google doesn’t have it’s problems, but personally I find Microsoft’s actions in regards to bing and bing search to be more abusive of their monopoly than Google. Microsoft is abusing their position as the OS in order to push people into their other products when it isn’t really feasible to switch for most people.
there are so many monopolies now. healthcare, media, internet. We really need to go back to some of the rules we had back in the early 80’s but this time don’t backtrack on it all.
Not that Google doesn’t have it’s problems, but personally I find Microsoft’s actions in regards to bing and bing search to be more abusive of their monopoly than Google. Microsoft is abusing their position as the OS in order to push people into their other products when it isn’t really feasible to switch for most people.
Android (with GApps installed) and ChromeOS are both very big platforms.
there are so many monopolies now. healthcare, media, internet. We really need to go back to some of the rules we had back in the early 80’s but this time don’t backtrack on it all.
Microsoft already had this trial back in the 2001.
whole lot a good it did, too.