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Is this even legal? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago* by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I just got this popup while playing New vegas. I don't even use chrome, i've switched to firefox. How can this be allowed? Also, this is Win10

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[+] -17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Anticompetitive is a matter of antitrust law. Microsoft doesn’t currently have a monopoly on operating systems in the way they did 25 years ago.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Looking online in January they had a 74% share of desktops.

    Linux is certainly dominating in the cloud but that doesn't really make much difference here.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    74% market share for desktop OS is actually a lot less than I thought. Guess macOS had a solid comeback

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    For desktop and laptop computers, Microsoft's Windows is the most used at 69%, followed by Apple's macOS at 17%, and Google's ChromeOS at 3.2% (in the US up to 8.0%), and desktop Linux at 2.9%. In addition, 5% is attributed to "unknown" operating systems - which are likely forms of BSD or obscure varieties of Linux.[4]

    From Wikipedia. Not sure when the numbers are from exactly.

    Apple has been slowly growing for years. Google took a little with their Chromebooks but they never really took off. Linux continues to grow steadily but is still pretty rare in desktop environments.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Those have to be old. Last I saw chromeOS had overtaken MacOS a few years ago due to Google’s huge push to give chromebooks to schools during the pandemic for remote learning. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56116573

    Unless chromeOS just cratered.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    It's hard to find numbers but I did find this:

    According to current data from research firm Gartner, ChromeOS's market share dropped considerably from 2020 to 2022, with just 6.8% of the worldwide PC market in 2022

    So seem like it has bombed since that article.

    Your article suggest it was a boom due to lockdown. Maybe that's faded as kids go back to school.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    it's also notable that Microsoft has no realistic mobile OS of their own, and a huge amount of what used to be done on a desktop OS is now on mobile. Operating an ecommerce site for instance, 65% of the traffic is from mobile phones, even browser vs apps.

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