• The BNC has called a consumer boycott of Microsoft including Xbox, and games made by Microsoft subsidiaries like Minecraft, Call of Duty, Bethesda games, etc

    BDS has several “levels” of target. Microsoft is listed as a “pressure target”, which is clarified on this page as:

    As a consumer, boycott Microsoft products whenever possible.

    So if you must e.g. use Teams for school, use Windows at work, etc, that is allowed, but where possible avoid Microsoft products.

    Also worth noting that BDS explicitly calls for consumers to move away from Microsoft operating systems and towards FOSS:

    [In a list of things to boycott] Microsoft Operating System, Office Suit, Browser, Search services and other tools (Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Bing, MSN, Teams, Skype etc.). Consider switching free and open software instead of another, possibly complicit company.

    News article from 3rd April 2025