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Microsoft | |
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| Founded | Microsoft 1975-04-04 |
| Founder | Bill Gates and Paul Allen |
| Industry | Information Technology. |
| 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.
Controversies
Anticompetitive Practices
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
The National Security Agency collaborated with Microsoft to implement backdoors in the Windows series of operating systems.