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Microsoft's getting cold feet and is now 'pledging' its new commitment to Europe (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 82 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The best way for all those things would be to not rely on Microsoft in the first place.

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca [S] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It's the classic bad faith tactic of claiming the opposite of what actually happens

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 25 points 1 year ago

Microsoft was always big on Embrace Extend Extinguish. And nothing really changed.

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