February 13, 2026
Microsoft Should be Sued
Timothy Birdnow
Recently I purchased a new laptop, a Lenovo, and started using the Chinese machine. The thing about this gadget is it was cheap and for a reason; it comes in s-mode, which forces you to purchase any aps from the Microsoft ap store. You can take it out of s-mode and I did that with the first Lenovo, which subsequently lost it's cursor, forcing me to return it. I strongly suspect it was designed to fail if someone left s-mode; they couldn't just tell you that because that would be restraint of trade, but I think they designed it to become buggy once the gatekeeper program was removed.
So I haven't taken the replacement out of s-mode. The end result is if I just do a search it goes to Bing (I can do other search engines but have to open them and if I am in a hurry to blog I frequenly don't.)
At any rate I've noticed Bing has a peculiar trick. If you are searching for something and go to a "mainstream" news source you get the hyperlink to that source when you open it but if you go to an alternative source, say, Townhall, it gives you a Bing link, a very long link which I am sure is managed by the good people at Microsoft to control the flow of news.
It's quite annoying. But more than annoying it's a form of censorship, I am sure; these links appearing in any text probably downgrades said texts in their search engine. In short, they are using this to suppress conservative thought.
The DOJ needs to look into lawsuits to break up Microsoft.
I don't know how the Left managed to take control of the internet but they did. Now all the major computer corporations are run by leftists. Of course the CIA had a hand in many such companies, from Google being seeded by them to Facebook's connection to Peter Thiel, who was always besties with the CIA.
At any rate I thought this was worth mentioning.
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You told me you had a "computer expert" in your family take your first Lenovo out of s-mode. Can you get him back and try to take this one out and see if it, too, loses its cursor, so he can fix that problem? I would then take the machine to the store where you got it and complain about the cursor problem, the s-mode situation, and so on.
I know you didn't have time to deal with the situation originally, which was unfortunate; I would have recommended you return the Lenovo and replace it with a Dell. But that's water under the bridge...
The problem with being restricted to Microsoft software is that so much of it is crap. Bing, for example, is a 10th-rate browser and search engine; but you're already learned that. I don't even let Bing live on my computer. Every so often a Windows update sneaks Bing on board my machine, and as soon as I see it I blow it away again.
I know you didn't have time to deal with the situation originally, which was unfortunate; I would have recommended you return the Lenovo and replace it with a Dell. But that's water under the bridge...
The problem with being restricted to Microsoft software is that so much of it is crap. Bing, for example, is a 10th-rate browser and search engine; but you're already learned that. I don't even let Bing live on my computer. Every so often a Windows update sneaks Bing on board my machine, and as soon as I see it I blow it away again.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at February 14, 2026 01:18 AM (W165o)
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Another problem with that computer is that you can't run non-Microsquash programs that you really ought to have. I've told you about one in our private chat area that you really should have, now that you are the CFO or your household. And there will be others.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at February 16, 2026 01:22 AM (5FaDg)
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