Is Microsoft less evil than Google at this point?

Less evil yes, but their software is shit.

Windows is fundamentally broken. After I "broke" it there was suddenly no more problems.

Different user but I havent had issues. Have used it on multiple computers. Am I just lucky?

Yeah and of course it's not the majority of people, but there are enough they should actively try to fix the problems. If you want some laughs go read about windows 10 problems on clean installs and look at the dates and the number of similar posts.

Only through incompetence not through intent

Why?

No, windows is a mess of spaghetti.
Something is good when it works.
Something is bad when it does not work.
Something is really really bad when it only works some of the time and whether or not it will work is completely undeterminable.

because spambot peers taint all results automatically

But I haven't had any issues. Or if there was I was easily able to fix it myself. Evrything I wanted to used worked and has never stopped working.

That does not speak of the quality of the os, it means your specific hardware configuration does not anger the eldritch spaghetti of hatred
When it works for you but not for others it’s objectively shit.

>Am I just lucky?
>No
Maybe I misunderstood. I thought you were saying I wasn't lucky.

>Should I use Bing instead of Google?
Only for porn
>Should I use Outlook instead of Gmail?
Not really
>Should I use OneDrive instead of Drive?
No difference between these two, unless the collaborative shit with other Google users is important to you.

Is DuckDuckGo or Startpage better? I like Startpage because of local results and trustworthiness but it's basically a proxy for Google so there's still ranking manipulation and censorship.

Startpage hands down. DDG has the worst results out of any search engine ever made and also it's shady as fuck.

DDG

>Is Microsoft less evil than Google at this point?
Fuck no. I don't think it will ever be.

>Should I use Bing instead of Google?
Qwant, searx.xyz
>Should I use Outlook instead of Gmail?
Protonmail
>Should I use OneDrive instead of Drive?
Cryptomator + any service, or Muonium

i can only definitively say that onedrive is better to use from a performance standpoint. google drive on any platform is a giant resource hog.

Much less. Microsoft is greedy, but lacks Google's power to engage in social engineering.

Also, degoogle, but go outside the megacorps for alternatives if possible.

Spinoff question. What browser should I use?

What you must understand that how evil a company is directly correlated to how much market they control. For example AMD the underdog everyone here shills? It would be evil too if it had the chance

Yes, Microsoft is less evil than google. I recently visited their Redmond campus and honestly its changed for the better. But if you remember what they did in the 90s and 00s then you would never forgive them

But also they are one of the few real competitors to google. Most other would just be a waste of your time

So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

cnet.com/news/this-is-not-your-fathers-microsoft/

fastcompany.com/40457458/satya-nadella-rewrites-microsofts-code

>2018
>not using cock.li

I use DDG because
1. Yandex for some reason thinks I am a robot
2. Google removed the download button from image search. This shit combined with Pinterest high priority results was annoying as fuck.
I don't use TEH CLOUDs because I own a ton of flash drives and external HDDs.
I use both Outlook and Gmail for different reasons.

>Google removed the download button from image search.
Getty Images sued them and that was the outcome of the legal dispute.

these, but it can try a little too hard on mobile and will butcher some pages (protecting you)

not a good enough reason not to use it, but a bit annoying; especially if you're already running ghostery, privacy badger, https, ABP, uB, etc etc.

>Ghostery
>Privacy Badger
>Adblock Plus
>uBlock Origin
Just use the latter, the rest is redundant, incompatible, and thus placebo.

what did they do in the 90s and 00s?

This. But I still have serious doubts about MS's ability to compete with Google. They still feel pretty incompetent and clumsy when it comes to developing new stuff. I think the thing that will kill Google is likely its own growth to saturation, and regulation/anti-trust.

Might as well compare dog poop to cat poop.

Firefox

Yes, but that's more out of incompetence than intent.
No use StartPage
No use your own mail service or if you are using one put it behind a PGP gateway.
Again use your own or encrypt before uploading what you are going to store in the online cloud.

Except it works fine on devices with modern hardware. It may be a privacy disaster, but complaining about it performing "badly" is just a blatant lie when comparing to open source alternatives with humongous driver issues.

t. hasn't had a problem or crash since 03.