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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.
History
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.
The National Security Agency collaborated with Microsoft to implement backdoors in the Windows operating system series.
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.[1]
Microsoft identified that there were weaknesses in the architecture and management costs of the open source community.[2]
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.[3]
- ↑ “...[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.