Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company's rival program, Bing. Nadella testified in a packed Washington, D.C., courtroom as part of the government's landmark antitrust trial against Google's parent company, Alphabet. The Justice Department alleges Google has abused the dominance of its ubiquitous search engine to throttle competition and innovation at the expense of consumers, allegations that echo a similar case brought against Microsoft in the late 1990s.

Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine::Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company’s rival program, Bing. Nadella testified in a packed Washington, D.C., courtroom as part of the government’s landmark antitrust trial against Google’s parent company, Alphabet. The Justice Department alleges Google has abused the dominance of its ubiquitous search engine to throttle competition and innovation at the expense of consumers, allegations that echo a similar case brought against Microsoft in the late 1990s.

  • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    1 year ago

    Microsoft doesn’t know what good software looks like but it sure knows what anticompetitiveness looks like.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    401·
    1 year ago

    Fuck you Microsoft. Your entire existence is based upon unfair monopolistic practices, I still remember having to build sites for IE6 you sick fucks.

    You spent millions literally on sabotaging your competition, and you’re still not able to create quality software yourself. You get to say nothing here.

    Microsoft should be broken up, bankruptcy would be even better

    • winterayars@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      They only avoided getting anti-trusted and split up like Ma Bell because W came into power and called off the prosecution. They have zero right to complain about monopolistic practices in the tech industry, lol.

      • maryjayjay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The were actually found guilty of anti trust by the department of justice, but somehow they were able to pay their fines by supplying schools with free copies of windows. Fuck me

  • TAG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    401·
    1 year ago

    Nadella said Google’s dominance was due to agreements that made it the default browser on smartphones and computers.

    Google gained dominance in the early 2000s when the dominant platform was the smart phone Windows computer, which had a default browser of Google Chrome Internet Explorer and a default search engine of Google MSN search.

    • Remavas@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Maybe if they actually made them better compared to the then competition, this could’ve turned out differently; mind you, it would still be as bad, because Microsoft, but hey, different nonetheless.

    • pazukaza@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Their product sucks so much that even their hardest monopolistic practices can’t prevent people from using Google.

  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    30·
    1 year ago

    “We totally would have established a monopoly through blatantly unfair business practices, but we had to be a little careful because everyone was still watching us closely after the last time we did that, and those weasely sons of bitches at Google snuck in there first this time!”

  • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
    241·
    1 year ago

    Besides the hypocrisy, Google won search by having the best idea. There’s a reason we make jokes about Altavista and Ask Jeeves.

    Google then used their position on search to take over a hundred other markets. That’s the real problem, but that’s not the argument being made here.

  • Defaced@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    Fuck this guy, Microsoft is just as guilty. Their business practices are based around limiting competition and exterminating it, the only reason they don’t have a monopoly on cloud platforms is because they were to busy trying to sell overpriced Windows server, SQL and office licenses to businesses and Amazon jumped into the cloud business first. Look at what they’re doing with Activision-Blizzard, the Indiana Jones video game from Bethesda, Starfield exclusivity etc. in the gaming space. This shit is part of the reason why I run Linux.

  • Gianmarco Gargiulo@feddit.itEnglish
    191·
    1 year ago

    The next article will be “Google CEO says unfair practices by Microsoft led to its dominance in the desktop OS space.”