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Microsoft | |
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| Industry | Information Technology. |
| Founded | Microsoft April 4, 1975 |
| Founder | Bill Gates and Paul Allen |
| Headquarters | Redmond, Washington, United States |
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| www.microsoft.com | |
Microsoft, often abbreviated to MS or M$, is a monopolistic company in the United States. It is the successor to Traf-O-Data.
History
Ownership
The Microsoft Corporation maintains Microsoft Windows, one of the most popularly used computer operating systems.
Controversies
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
Embrace-Extend-Extinguish is a strategy Microsoft used to gain control of software standards.
- The perpetrator embraces the standards.
- The perpetrator forms their implementation of the standards.
- The implementation is extended to attract more users than other implementations.
- After the implementation gains the majority of users, the suspected implementation locks their extended features from other implementation.
Privacy Breaches
Microsoft is a spy arm of the U.S government. In 2013, whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and FBI had direct access to Microsoft's internal servers.[1] In 2017, WikiLeaks revealed that the CIA can hack into Microsoft PCs and use them as microphones for surveillance.[2]
Recuperation of Open Source Software
Microsoft demonized the idea of open source software as a threat to its business in the 1980s.
In 1998, Microsoft formed a strategy to recuperate Open Source software through architecture.[3]
Microsoft identified that there were weaknesses in the architecture and management costs of the open source community.[4]
Microsoft acquired GitHub in June 2018, likely to play upon the monolithic usage of GitHub by most open source projects.
Aggression against the Linux kernel
Microsoft views Linux as a threat to their monopoly on operating systems.
Microsoft listed that the Linux kernel dominated network and server infrastructure; and that Microsoft could add their extensions to some technological commodities to gain some control of the technological standards.[5]
References
- ↑ Elliott Gabriel (2018-04-06). "Pentagon Capitalism and Silicon Valley: Google’s Drone War Project Shows Big Data’s Military Roots" MintPress News. Archived from the original on 2022-03-28. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ↑ ZeroHedge.com (2017-03-07). "Wikileaks Releases ‘Vault 7’ – The Largest Leak Of Confidential CIA Documents To Date" MintPress News. Archived from the original on 2021-02-15. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
- ↑ “...[Open Source Software] poses a direct, short-term revenue and platform threat to Microsoft -- particularly in server space. Additionally the intrinsic parallelism and free idea exchange in OSS has benefits that are not replicable with our current licensing model and therefore present a long term developer mindshare threat.”
Vinod Valloppillil (1998). Halloween I. - ↑ Vinod Valloppillil (1998). Halloween I.
- ↑ “Linux's homebase is currently commodity network and server infrastructure. By folding extended functionality (e.g. Storage+ in file systems, DAV/POD for networking) into today's commodity services, we raise the bar & change the rules of the game.”
Vinod Valloppillil (1998). Halloween I.