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Arguably not totally new, but quite the success: lobbying for big corporate IT to use their shitty products and enforce use of them onto all users.
I feel like that's been going on from pretty much the very start, or at the very least right after they put a chokehold on OEMs for them to put windows on desktops by default. Have they been recently pushing even harder or in newer ways I'm not aware of?
As someone who felt forced out of a corporate IT environment due to their software hindering my workflow, I would say they have been quite successful in forcing competitors out of corporat intranets. The environment that I left ended up removing LibreOffice from the internal software catalogue, probably due to successful lobbying.