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-A software company.
You've heard of these guys. Their HeadHoncho, BillGates, was on Frazier the other night. That's how big they are. Their web address is [http://www.microsoft.com/]. Their street address is One Microsoft Way. Some even say that it's their company slogan too.
+A software company who make/made [DOS], MicrosoftWindows, MicrosoftOffice and [InternetExplorer] as well as the [VisualStudio], [VisualBasic], [VisualC++] and MicroSoftDeveloperNetwork development tools
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+As a commercial enterprise their main sources of income have historically been selling software, principally through the [OEM] market. Microsoft code is not released under the [GPL] and the details of the contracts with [OEM] clients are usually supressed.
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You've heard of these guys. Their HeadHoncho, BillGates, was on Frazier the other night. That's how big they are. Their web address is [http://www.microsoft.com/]. Their street address is One Microsoft Way. Some even say that it's their company slogan too.
Some people summarize them as ''Indescribable. Pure evil. Makes Cthulhu look cute and cuddly.''
They do, however, provide a lot of people with a lot of jobs, and while I believe they need to make some fundamental changes to the way they operate, is simply ordering they be closed down, good for the corporate world?
''Well, given that a lot of the people they provide with jobs are [MarkeTroid]s, would we not be better off without 'em? ;)'' -- GreigMcGill
-TODO: a list of MS [FUD] links, Halloween document, DRM stuff, whatever could be interesting
+TODO: a list of MS [FUD] links, Halloween document, DRM stuff, whatever could be interesting. MicrosoftDirtyTricks.
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+See MicrosoftQuotes for some of their wackier public statements.
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