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==Consumer impact summary<!-- first draft of summary; some citations needed to throughout but otherwise should be okay. do not remove bullet points below until they are fully integrated elsewhere in longer sections -->== | ==Consumer impact summary<!-- first draft of summary; some citations needed to throughout but otherwise should be okay. do not remove bullet points below until they are fully integrated elsewhere in longer sections -->== | ||
Microsoft is engaged in significant anti consumer and anticompetitive practices, often leading to lawsuits. Most of the practices are attempts at increasing its monopolisitc grip on consumers, coercing them to using their services and their services only. Notably shown by its attempts to force Internet Explorer and now Edge onto Windows users culminating in an antitrust lawsuit, signing exclusive deals with OEMs to push out competition, using [[wikipedia:Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish|"embrace, extend, extinguish"]] tactics to eliminate competitors, thus impeding user control and freedom. Microsoft is also engaged in mass surveillance (PRISM program)<ref name=": | Microsoft is engaged in significant anti consumer and anticompetitive practices, often leading to lawsuits. Most of the practices are attempts at increasing its monopolisitc grip on consumers, coercing them to using their services and their services only. Notably shown by its attempts to force Internet Explorer and now Edge onto Windows users culminating in an antitrust lawsuit, signing exclusive deals with OEMs to push out competition, using [[wikipedia:Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish|"embrace, extend, extinguish"]] tactics to eliminate competitors, thus impeding user control and freedom. Microsoft is also engaged in mass surveillance (PRISM program)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=July 11, 2011 |title=Snowden Reveals Microsoft PRISM Cooperation: Helped NSA Decrypt Emails, Chats, Skype Conversations |url=https://www.ibtimes.com/snowden-reveals-microsoft-prism-cooperation-helped-nsa-decrypt-emails-chats-skype-conversations |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250701125316/https://www.ibtimes.com/snowden-reveals-microsoft-prism-cooperation-helped-nsa-decrypt-emails-chats-skype-conversations |archive-date=2025-07-01 |access-date=2025-08-18 |website=International Business Times}}</ref> and has been known to remove content from Bing to appease China's authoritarian regime.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nicholas |first=Kristof |date=2009-11-20 |title=Boycott Microsoft Bing |url=http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/boycott-microsoft-bing/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091123194315/http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/boycott-microsoft-bing/ |archive-date=2009-11-23 |access-date=2025-08-18 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> | ||
==Anticompetitive Lawsuits== | ==Anticompetitive Lawsuits== | ||