This is a taste of what you can achieve when regulatory bodies actually have the guts to stand up to megacorps.
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
For non-tech users I think the problem is momentum, for technical users it’s (IMO) Stockholm Syndrome a good percentage of the time.
I will when I can install all the programs I need that exist on Mac and Windows.
You can. Just install them through WINE or Valve’s Proton compatibility tool.
WINE and Proton are great, but it really depnds on what programs in particular are needed. Even one unsupported application can be a dealbreaker when no alternatives exist or are acceptable substitutes.
You can run them in a VM…
Sad USA klepto clowns deny us what really should be common practice, and it’s sad it has to be codified.
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.
I am building a minimal, debloated Win11 QEMU image currently. But windows doing that on Purpose? I dont think so
Uhh, Tiny11?
