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Comment by shevy-java

4 months ago

Even Microsoft is betting on Linux now. No wonder given Win11 not being popular! :D

The strategy "Embrace, extend and extinguish" by Microsoft even has its own Wikipedia page.

  • Conspiracy theory

    • It might be when used now, but it was used by Microsoft internally at the time.

      First part of that Wikipedia page:

      > "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used open standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and using the differences to strongly disadvantage its competitors.

    • You shouldn’t be posting replies like this on a public forum if you’re actually a MS employee.