I’m helping a friend of mine writing a long essay exposing the abusive, monopolistic and anti-consumer practices of Microsoft. First, we’ve created some sort of table of contents with the different topics we want to cover and now we’re gathering sources for each of these topics.
Microsoft is a huge corporation with a big influence on media and although if you dig enough you can find useful sources, they’ve also made an extremely good job at hiding bad press from search engines.
We’ve scrolled through Hacker News, other links aggregators and sites like TechRights and we’ve found a good amount of articles against Microsoft. But we’re sure there has to be more. So that’s kinda why we’re asking.
Bullet points for the sections we’ve thought of (suggestions are welcome too):
* The Microsoft Monopoly
* Microsoft and the web
* Internet Explorer
* Microsoft Edge
* Microsoft Windows Monopoly
* Microsoft and the Governments
* Education
* Healthcare
* Microsoft Gaming Empire
* Windows Backdoors (not sure where this section belongs)
* Work with the NSA
* Microsoft loves Open Source (microsoft infiltration in foss)
* Microsoft and the OSI
* Github
* Github Copilot
* VSCode
* War on GPL
* Microsoft loves Linux and BSD?
* Embrace, extend, extinguish
* Our lord, Bill Gates
* The media empire
* Twitter censorship
* Bill Gates the philanthropist
* Big Pharma
* Bill and Jeffrey Epstein
Edit: typos and removed the pun “Kill Bill Gates” because it seemed inappropriate.
d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzEnglish81·11 months ago- The disaster that was Vista (increased system requirements, “vista capable” lawsuit)
- Trusted computing controversy
- Secure boot
- Decision to remove the Start button in Windows 8
- UWP apps - about how bloated they are
- Replacement of lightweight win32 apps to bloated UWP (eg Sticky Notes, Notepad, Photo Gallery etc)
- The new Settings applet and the deprecation of the old Control Panel
- Complete removal of certain Control Panel applets, with no GUI replacements
- Deep integration of Explorer.exe from Windows 8 onwards, making it near-impossible to have a complete shell replacement (affecting the third-party shells such as BlackBox)
- Locking down of OS features in the name of “security” (eg requiring a hack to apply custom themes)
- Aggressive nagging to upgrade to Windows 10 (including forced upgrades)
- Windows Update: specifically, how it hijacks your PC
- Windows Update can sometimes remove Linux as a bootable option
- Lack of a rolling release model
- Aggressive telemetry and user data collection
- Increased bloatware and unwanted features
- Ads in Start Men and File Explorer
- Print Nightmare bug mismanagement
- Bug that caused the deletion of user documents
- Microsoft Pluton
- Forcing new Windows users to sign in with a Microsoft Account, requiring a hack to use local accounts
- The constant push towards Microsoft cloud services, which are not only a privacy nightmare but have hidden costs and is unreliable (eg frequent outages, lack of troubleshooting features, clunky)
- Microsoft Intune sucks and isn’t a replacement for SCCM, in spite of them claiming otherwise
- Constant product renames (eg: SCCM > MECM, Azure AD > Entra ID etc)
- Forcing driver apps to be distributed and updated via Microsoft Store
- Microsoft Store
- Artificial TPM and CPU requirements for Windows 11 (planned obsolescence)
- Removal of useful features from Window 11 (eg: taskbar customisation options)
- Forced integration of services such as Teams
- Fake Bing ads targeting Chrome users, pushing Adware/PUP
- Malware-like popups in Windows 11 for Bing
- Microsoft Teams (specifically: it’s UI, and how bloated it is)
- Claiming that .NET MAUI is cross-platform, when you can’t build Linux apps with it
- Microsoft PowerShell on Linux is a joke
- Lack of Microsoft Office for Linux, in spite of Microsoft claiming to love Linux
- Lack of VBA support in Office 365 browser apps
- Limited BIOS features in Surface Laptops
- Microsoft support is horrible, even their premium enterprise support sucks
- Microsoft News Portal posting factually-incorrect, AI generated articles