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[Microsoft Corporation | http://www.microsoft.com/] is the software company founded by BillGates'. They made [MS-DOS], MicrosoftWindows, MicrosoftOffice, MicrosoftAccess, InternetExplorer, VisualBasic, [VisualC++], VisualStudio and the MicroSoftDeveloperNetwork development tools. They have also sold a [UNIX] called [Xenix], but all references to this have been wiped from their WebSite (MicrosoftWindows actually has a [POSIX] compliance layer and they do work with MainSoft on compatibility with [UNIX]).
-Their main cash cows are MicrosoftWindows and MicrosoftOffice, and to a lesser extent MicrosoftExchange and the SQLServer. All other branches of their product family are making very little, or even losing them, money
, but thanks to the four aforementioned very
profitable products they can afford to indefinitely dominate markets where they never turn a profit. Historically they have harvested their profits from software licenses sold in bulk to [OEM]s and large corporations under secretively protected terms. In more than a few cases these terms have been designed for heavy handed stifling of competition and have been, if not outright illegal, then at least highly questionable. They
have however
had to change their behaviour due
to antitrust investigations although this is
an ongoing thing
and has not been completely resolved
. MicrosoftCorporation's
street address is 1 Microsoft Way. Some say that's their company slogan too.
+Their main cash cows are MicrosoftWindows and MicrosoftOffice, and to a lesser extent MicrosoftExchange and the SQLServer. All other branches of their product family are of questionable profitability
, but thanks to the four aforementioned obscenely
profitable products they can afford to indefinitely dominate markets where they never turn a profit. Historically they have harvested their profits from software licenses sold in bulk to [OEM]s and large corporations under secretively protected terms. In more than a few cases these terms have been designed for heavy handed stifling of competition and have been, if not outright illegal, then at least highly questionable. Antitrust investigations
have had some corrective effect on the most egregious offences, but this generally happens long after the fact.
+
+Events in mid-2007 surrounding the standardisation of the Office OpenXML format at [ISO] have underscored that MicrosoftCorporation remains the company it has always been. In November 2007, after [Mandriva] closed a deal for 17,000 notebooks intended for pupils that would be delivered with Linux preinstalled, the Nigerian government suddenly informed Mandriva that [they would buy the notebooks as agreed but replace Linux | http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/10/31/an-open-letter-
to-steve-ballmer/] with MicrosoftWindows on delivery. In other late-2007 news, MSFT are stonewalling the progress of ECMAScript 4, spreading [FUD] about its compatibility with ECMAScript 3 alias JavaScript, proposing instead
to create
an entirely new language to move the development of browsers
and the web forward
.
+
+Their
street address is 1 Microsoft Way. Some say that's their company slogan too.
AddToMe: Palladium / [DRM] stuff.
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