Microsoft needs some serious regulation.

Given their OS prevalence, their forceful push to cloud and cloud system user accounts is unacceptable. Optional suggestion would be fine; but they’re doing the opposite.

OS upgrades forgetting other programs and other program file associations while at the same time making it much harder to change them is unacceptable. Offering or suggesting their own products in a non-intrusive manner would be fine; but they’re doing the opposite.

There’s much more to criticize. But those are the worst and obviously unacceptable offenders to me.

Some niches switching to FOSS won’t change their dominance or behavior. Only forceful regulation by state unions will.

On one hand, I absolutely support leaving Microsoft behind. On the other hand, I don’t know that this form of action is likely to really be felt by Microsoft, and I think the FSFs sort of evangelical approach to sharing what’s special and worthwhile about free software often just kinda feeds negative sentiments towards FOSS as a worthwhile cause.

One of my close friends was, for a long time, kinda hostile to the idea of anything open source because her experiences with open source folks always sucked.

I’m just kinda typing out the thoughts this prompted, this isn’t necessarily a response specifically or exclusively to the article.