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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 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"]] | 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 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=":1" /> 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> | ||
===Anti-competitive practices=== | ===Anti-competitive practices=== | ||
*'''Exclusionary contracts''' | *'''Exclusionary contracts''' | ||
:Blocking rivals' distribution channels by signing exclusive deals with PC manufacturers and ISPs. <ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date= | :Blocking rivals' distribution channels by signing exclusive deals with PC manufacturers and ISPs. <ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2002-01-25 |title=Competitive Processes, Anticompetitive Practices And Consumer Harm In The Software Industry: An Analysis Of The Inadequacies Of The Microsoft-Department Of Justice Proposed Final Judgment |url=https://www.justice.gov/atr/competitive-processes-anticompetitive-practices-and-consumer-harm-software-industry-analysis |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115104834/https://www.justice.gov/atr/competitive-processes-anticompetitive-practices-and-consumer-harm-software-industry-analysis |archive-date=2017-11-15 |access-date=2025-08-23 |website=justice.gov |publisher=U.S. Department Of Justice}}</ref> | ||
*'''Sabotaging competitors''' | *'''Sabotaging competitors''' | ||
:Deliberately degrading interoperability of competing software (e.g., Java, ''Netscape'') with Windows. <ref name=":0" | :Deliberately degrading interoperability of competing software (e.g., Java, ''Netscape'') with Windows. <ref name=":0" /> | ||
===Cloud computing monopoly abuse=== | ===Cloud computing monopoly abuse=== | ||
*'''Lock-in tactics''' | *'''Lock-in tactics''' | ||