In multiple jurisdictions, Microsoft has avoided the scrutiny levied against other technology companies, despite being the second largest public company in the US.
“As we know from our own experience with Microsoft’s Bing search service, access to fresh, broad and deep news coverage is critical to retaining strong user engagement.” Today, far too many local communities must nurture democracy without a fourth estate,” Smith wrote. “Democracy has always started at the local level.
In February, its president, Brad Smith, came out in favour of an Australian law that imposed a requirement on Google and Facebook to negotiate fees with news providers for linking to their work. Microsoft has also taken contrarian stances in other policy debates. There’s no reason why there should be one set of rules. “I sense a real opportunity,” he said, “because in some sense what has happened is the other two ecosystems that are at scale, for their own internally consistent set of reasons, have conflated – at least in my mind – what is the platform and the aggregation layer with one set of rules. In a recent interview with the technology site Verge, Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, argued that Apple and Google had become too attached to running their app stores, at the expense of their broader platforms. Microsoft has frequently voiced opposition to the two companies’ platform policies, even filing a brief supporting a court case against Apple from the Fortnite developer Epic Games. The move is in stark contrast to Apple and Google’s mobile app stores, both of which require developers to use their in-app payment systems and charge sliding commissions ranging from 15% to 30% of the overall take. A different set of rules apply for game developers: their share is lower, at 12%, but they will not be given the option of using their own payment processors.
Currently, developers who sell apps via Window have to use the Microsoft Commerce platform for in-app payments and share 15% of the revenue with the company.
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