The EU Is Fixing Microsoft Windows

In this video I discuss how the EU Digital Markets Act is requiring Microsoft to allow end users to uninstall default applications like Edge, Bing, and Cortana from Windows, allow users to have offline Microsoft accounts, and allow users to make non Microsoft apps their defaults for everything in the Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems

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[AncientSlugThrower]

When being able to uninstall the software on your hardware is considered a victory.

[EpicTyphlosionTV]

If only the US Government would give as much of a care about tech as the EU does

[lowfatmochalatte]

My god the Eu is incredibly based with tech

[Vienna]

The EU is literally saving the Global Tech industry

[darkguardian]

EU: "Now, regarding the Windows 11 TPM requirements..."
Seems the EU is doing what the FTC should be doing.

[MyDarkKnightRisesWhenISeeU]

Sometimes the EU sucks, but i love it when they show the Finger to Big Tech

[poakssa]

Imagine if EU mandates that everyone should have root access to their own devices. A simple solution to most of the software problems.

[mitchib]

I love the EU. They've done more for the tech industry than Apple and Microsoft have done in recent years.

[shinnou]

So it takes a massively bloated bureaucracy to force another massively bloated bureaucracy to make changes to their product. Got it.

[ChineseKiwi]

EU regulations being based once again. Also remember, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) brought you worldwide Steam refunds as well for much the same reasons in that it was easier to implement a thing globally than it is to have an exclusive EU or Australian market thing. Also my Onedrive account is based in Ireland for it to be covered under GDPR lol.

[hitesman]

I mean, designing an operating system that makes you miss the last version of it EVERY SINGLE TIME is no small feat. It takes a special level of disgust, hatred, and disregard for your user base that has only been matched by the gaming industry. Cheers, Microsoft, you'll always be trash in my book.

[mayyoufindlove]

It always baffled me how Apple users only being able to download from the Apple store didn't go against freedom of market, competition etc.

[umbrellacorpsecurity]

I always felt stupid "Searching" for a file and being given search engine results

[nicksjacku]

Wish the EU could be like this 100% of the time

[blehmeh]

This actually happened back in 2009! The EU confronted MS about the presence of Internet Explorer in Windows 7 as an unremovable and default web browser option, and MS made a big show about shipping an EU version that didn't have IE unless you opted in to have it. However, they ended up just shipping the exact same Windows 7 that the rest of the world got. They got fined a bunch of euros and ultimately didn't care.

If they just get fined again, I'm sure they still won't care.

[charlotteice]

The EU regulators are using their power to give us what we all want the tech companies to do and I'm here for it. The market is supposed to create better products for the consumer but that didn't work in tech, so I'm glad the EU is stepping in and making sure that the market can do its job.

[Rathmun]

Regarding the Apple GPS thing for only allowing side-loading in the EU, well, it'll be interesting to see how long that lasts. Because I suspect the EU isn't going to just let that fly. Their citizens travel outside the EU after all, and if they bought their phone in the EU and they're an EU citizen, that law probably still applies.

[arebelscum]

Shame Cortana couldn't have been like the one from Halo.

[Occultastic]

I would love to see this with Android. I hate all of these bloted apps and not being able to uninstall Netflix and more.

EDIT: I want to clarify that I have an S20 (Samsung) and I cannot choose it because my parents bought it for me and as long as it works, I will use it. I don't like wasting tech or money in my wallet. I am an apprentice, so I don't have a lot.

[HerbyDigitalTV]

Something important to remember is that windows is very normie, business, and OEM focused, a few hackermen breaking the region locks isn’t a massive concern of Microsoft because they’re not the primary customer base and won’t be costing them enough money to make them want to stop it.