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We're Listening!
Mike999 wrote:To be honest, I was thinking the same. However, it seems it still was commercially beneficial to remove IE and Media Player and pay all those fines.
But, indeed, what IF... Microsoft -would- have said something like 'This is our product. It is as it is. We don't change it and we do not want to be fined either. Hence you (=EU) force us to stop selling/supporting our product there, so you leave us no alternative but to step out..."A bit like Google stepping out of China, way back in 2010.
Guess what would happen when at one point in time people can't use Office (or whatever) anymore...
Google left China and Google is regretting doing that.
now China makes the most advanced smart phones ever. they don't need Google services or CPUs made in US, they make their own. their super computers are on the top 5 list and it's made of their own CPU and operation system.
also China blocks Google and has their own search engine.
can EU do all that? nope.
EU is lots of countries while China is only 1 country.
No, EU can't... too many countries, no leadership, indecisive on almost everything. It takes a generation to get something done
However...
There is one major thing the EU can do though, in fact they are real experts in that...:
fines ! ha!
Probably some kind of policy, they are always in need of money.
Generating money that way, I guess that doesn't require member states' approvals.
Just do a Google search on EU fines ...
(sorry - have to confess, all this is getting off-topic - I take the blame)
- Haha you're right..
but no, i mean the topic is not known, what's the topic? the title of the post here is "we are listening" so let them listen 🙂
although I can't remember the last time a Microsoft employee posted a comment on this huge topic.