It needs to start with a retroactive investigation of what happened with Teams, which was such an obvious anticompetitive abuse to steal market share away from Slack and others. But it needs to go a lot deeper and touch everything. The acquisitions of GitHub, LinkedIn, and other companies. Things like shoving unwanted ads into Windows due to a lack of competition. Repeated aggressive nudges to use Edge over other browsers. Copilot agents running in the background without user consent, giving their AI an advantage no one else enjoys. Overly complicated Office file formats. The funding of OpenAI and Satya’s obvious direct control over that company, seen in the situation with the previous board, where he threatened to just dismantle OpenAI by hiring away all the staff. And on and on.

One thing I want to call out is that everyone thinks Satya is some kind of soft, nice person. He joined Microsoft in 1992. He is 100% part of the old Microsoft guard. Sure he may have continued Ballmer’s bet on Bing/services into Azure/O365/etc and turned the company’s valuation around. But he is definitely familiar with the entire playbook of Microsoft using its existing products, existing contracts/renewals, existing capital, existing staff to copy others, bundle, undercut, and keep taking over market segments that under fair competition would go to other more deserving companies like startups.

> He is 100% part of the old Microsoft guard.

I don't think people really fear the Microsoft old guard anymore. HN loves to wave around the Halloween documents as evidence of Microsoft's persisting evil, but the remaining Windows users can't be made to care. If anything, most of the Windows/Microsoft product users I speak with want the old user philosophy to return.

Ironically, the advertising, data collection and service revenue abuse of Windows doesn't appear to even be a serious concern from the looks of the report. They're more interested in Microsoft's abusive B2B contracts, which have been reputably sketchy for years now. Burning down your operating system for the sake of service revenue isn't illegal - if it was, Tim Cook would have been put behind bars a decade ago.

This is what consumer protection looks like; for modern Americans. Don't forget that, the US government does not give even the faintest shit about your awful user experience if the OEM plays fair ball. Feeling free yet?