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Microsoft Now Uses or Leverages Software Freedom Against Free Software

"For most people, if you wanted to get on the internet, you just clicked on the big blue E on the desktop. It was right there, it worked, and that's all that mattered." (Gates was grilled, in his grueling deposition, about admitting this would be the strategy; he put that in writing)

They won't use Chrome... If we preload EDGE every time they boot their PC
Same strategy as WSL in Vista 10



Summary: A reader's explanation of what Microsoft is trying to accomplish with its so-called 'embrace' and what steps will come next (how they manifest themselves)

THIS may sound strange, but it is absolutely true. Take a moment to think about it. Read carefully because our reader seems to have hit the nail right on the head.



Last week a reader told us what he had seen at the local store, a British shop (large chain) that sells loads of magazines.

That same reader has sent us more input after researching the matter even further.

To put it very succinctly, Microsoft nowadays uses the freedom of Free software to attack both this software and our collective freedom. The company did not change. It is still run by liars, criminals and crooks (ask the US government as it has just fined them for it).

"To put it very succinctly, Microsoft nowadays uses the freedom of Free software to attack both this software and our collective freedom."An associate of ours takes note of this "spam" this morning (his words) and it comes from The Verge, a site which was edited by Bill Gates some years ago. As one might expect, nowadays it does lots of ads for Microsoft, but they're cleverly disguised as articles with insights. We've named some British 'news' sites that do the same for Microsoft. The summary says "Microsoft’s new browser takes on Chrome with some different features."

What are those features? Let's find out...

Our associate has meanwhile taken note of a similar problem (almost identical but at the OS rather than browser space). Some Microsoft-leaning, WSL-promoting "spam" (his word) is being published. People are supposed to think that WSL is a replacement for GNU/Linux? What a joke...

Or that nobody needs to download a browser for Windows anymore? Because of "EDGE"?

"Get a load of this self-serving garbage from Microsoft," our reader explained to us today. “The new Microsoft Edge... is twice as fast as legacy Edge" (tall claims from Microsoft Paul).

"People are supposed to think that WSL is a replacement for GNU/Linux? What a joke..."Get ready for the epic fake 'benchmarks'... the ones Microsoft paid so-called 'analysts' to make about GNU/Linux, especially to make GNU/Linux seem inadequate for servers.

Our reader researched the MSEdge repository and posited that: "translation: Bury core functionality in a Windows DLL that loads at boot, hide the API calls from third-party developers, then sing the praises of the faster and better graphics/media playing of Microsoft Edge. Have these people no shame? That's a rhetorical question..."

To quote the puff piece: "Outside the Microsoft Edge browser, users of other browsers on Windows PCs sometimes face inconsistent feature-sets and performance/battery-life across device types. Some browsers have had slower-progress to embrace new Windows capabilities like touch and ARM processors..."

Time for EEE, right? WSL style...

"Time for EEE, right? WSL style..."Our reader responds: "translation: As Microsoft Edge DLLs gets loaded at boot, they're not counted as impacting battery performance. Any such battery saving features we have buried in Microsoft Edge and are not of course shared with third-party developers. This is the same shuffle we've been playing on you poor fools since the dawn of the personal computer and as long as you still let us, we'll go on fooling you.

"Incidentally, I seriously doubt that Bill Gates has fully withdrawn from Microsoft. The willful distortions and historical revisionism coming out of Redmond has all the hallmarks of his speech patterns. Remember when he welcomed Mozilla onto the Internet, after Microsoft tried to buy Mozilla and then had to settle with licensing Spyglass, who Bill Gates of course cheated out of revenue. (It's in one of the Comes documents)

"Isn't it amazing, someone could go into a magazine shop and come out with a DVD containing all the software they would ever need. That software is at least equal if not better than the Microsoft innovation. And yet every year, the world spends billions on Microsoft licenses."

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