Notices by Ian Betteridge (ianb@mastodon.well.com), page 2

The 2009 deal, by the way, was nothing to do with security software: it was the final settlement of the long-running antitrust case which focused on browser choice and interoperability. The proposals on interop – which are probably the ones MS is referring to here – were made by MS and accepted by the commission.

Details here:

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2009/12/18/interoperability-the-other-side-of-our-settlement-with-the-european-commission/

The full details on Microsoft's interoperability deal appears to have vanished into their servers – maybe they got hit by CrowdStrike – but you can still get them from the Internet Archive, thankfully.

Not that any of the people currently racing to Threads to denounce the EU as a security risk will bother.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100116043503/https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/dec09/12-16statement.mspx

If I was a betting man, I would put money on Biden withdrawing on Monday.

Wait, this was THREE WEEKS AGO?

https://www.thestack.technology/crowdstrike-bug-maxes-out-100-of-cpu-requires-windows-reboots/

No idea who made this, but whoever it was – I salute you

Great thread (as always) from Joan. One of the most obvious flaws in this generation of Rich Tech Guys is their hopeless overconfidence in their own knowledge and ability, and absolute reluctance to admit that they know nothing much about anything other than term sheets and multipliers. Plus of course, they *never* have to think macro simply because their aim isn't to create longterm successful businesses – it's to sell out at a good multiplier asap. https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/112812829826680674

Can you imagine if the code which bricked all those PCs turns out to have been generated by GitHub Copilot or another LLM coding tool?

Joe is an early contender for the "Understatement of the Year" award

Siri, show me what happens when you let billionaires own social media platforms. https://www.threads.net/@gtconway3dg/post/C9lI3wkJqNA

Summary of how social media is performing over the CrowdStrike BSOD:

Bluesky: Crickets, because not enough people are on

Mastodon: Deep tech analysis from people currently doing front line support

Twitter: Fake screenshots from Cryptobros

Threads: Three day old content

Facebook: Look at my cat!

The dumbest timeline

What do we think Musk can fail at next?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-07-12/musk-s-x-falls-short-on-promises-of-new-video-shows

What's the odds that this will recommend quite a large number of Amazon-brand products?

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/12/amazon-ai-chatbot-rufus-is-now-live-for-all-u-s-customers/?guccounter=1

It seems strange to say “I wish I could have my time again” when I haven’t finished having my time yet.

Those who cannot remember the excuses that monopolists of the past made are condemned to repeat them.

This is great - a look at the Apple PenLite, the pen-based Mac that lost out to Newton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc-QRgpUIqU&t=417s

So, Apple, which bits of the DMA does Apple Intelligence violate? Because unless you can actually tell us - which case we clearly have a bit of a problem with some of the claims you've made about how it works - or you're talking bullshit, and just trying to get some leverage with the EU. Which is it Tim?

https://www.ft.com/content/360751cb-7a22-48e0-9b00-6a30ff41dcfe

@dave @gruber I think this is one of the things for Apple to consider, from a PR perspective. The days when it was basically seen as "the good guys" by consumers and not just another big tech company are waning.

The response to the iPad ad was a good example of this: a lot of people did not give them the benefit of the doubt, where in the past they would have.

@dave @gruber I genuinely don’t know what they’re trying to achieve with their responses. I just can’t see what the end goal is for them. Get the EU to apply the law differently to them? Not going to happen. “Punish” Europe? Not going to help their sales, and they come off as corporate bullies which isn’t a good place for them. (1/2)

@gruber @dave If owning a market is their end goal, that's not going to fly. And that's what much of this comes down to: Apple has grown rich off controlling the market for applications on iOS, and doesn't want to give up that money. But similarly, the entire point of the EU is to prevent *any* company controlling big markets, because to the EU, free markets are the very reason for its existence. Interesting times.