No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon
No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon
Some changes will arrive for non-EU users, too, but not the easy removals.
This is a taste of what you can achieve when regulatory bodies actually have the guts to stand up to megacorps.
In the EEA, much more is on the way:
Bing's web search from the Start menu and the Edge browser can be uninstalled Third parties can add to the Windows Widgets Board feeds Third parties, like Google or DuckDuckGo, can provide the built-in web search results that Bing once had exclusively Windows users who choose to sync their Microsoft accounts will have their pinned apps and preferences synced, seemingly keeping their EEA-enabled choices Windows will now "always use customers' configured app default settings for link and file types"
Good to see Microsoft just blatantly confirming that these are anti-competitive measures rather than any sort of technical limitation.
A “technical limitation” is just a feature with a poor ROI on engineering hours on a spreadsheet. I mean, on Microsoft 365 Excel.
The fact that they only do this in Europe is the biggest "fuck you" to users they could have done.
Well if you're tired of Microsoft, you can install any of the many Linux distros completely free
Sad USA klepto clowns deny us what really should be common practice, and it’s sad it has to be codified.
The moment win 10 reaches EOL, I'm switching. Not gonna ride that shitshow anymore
I am building a minimal, debloated Win11 QEMU image currently. But windows doing that on Purpose? I dont think so
Uhh, Tiny11?
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Some are not so subtle, like testing a "quiz" that made some users explain why they're trying to quit the OneDrive app.
Those living in the European Economic Area (EEA)—which includes the EU and adds Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway—will soon get the volume turned down on their Windows 11 systems.
Microsoft writes in a blog post that many of these changes will be available in a preview update of Windows 11 (version 23H2) this month.
The Digital Markets Act's impending arrival will impact other major tech firms that are considered "gatekeepers" providing "core platform services" that are "most prone to unfair business practices."
Google has recently pitched the European Union on the idea of forcing Apple to make iMessage interoperable under the Act.
On Wednesday, Meta became the first platform to appeal its gatekeeper status for its Messenger and Marketplace services, followed shortly thereafter by TikTok.
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