Post #513167

2026-03-04 07:42 UTC

Only if Microsoft acquires a major CPU chipmaker. There has to be a lot of vertical integration under one company, the way it is with Apple products. Otherwise there are other OS like Linux that comprise enough of the market to ensure there will always be an unlocked BIOS option.

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@DFX4509B__dup_13501@lemmy.wtf 2026-03-04 07:44

They make their own ARM silicon for datacenters, hypothetically they could just scale that down for consumer devices and there’s your vertical integration.

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@MNByChoice@midwest.social 2026-03-04 13:25

I want to push back on this part: Only if Microsoft acquires a major CPU chipmaker. In the USA, and other parts of the world, a small number of Billionaires are buying up everything. A small number of wealthy people could each own a part of the supply chain and for it on the vast majority. For extra enforcement, add in a legal or cultural push for reporting or shunning violators through the media companies owned by that same group.

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@utopiah@lemmy.ml 2026-03-04 16:18

Doesn’t matter, Microsoft already sell computers, i.e. Surface. One can still buy computers from other manufacturers. They can buy an instance of the entire stack and there would still be alternatives.

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