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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
.
+[Microsoft Corporation |
http://www.microsoft.com/] is BillGates
' software
company. 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
.
-Some people summarize
them as ''Indescribable
. Pure evil
. Makes Cthulhu look cute
and cuddly
.''
+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 losing
them money, 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
. MicrosoftCorporation
's street address is 1 Microsoft Way. Some say that
's their company slogan too.
-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?
+AddToMe: Palladium / [DRM] stuff.
-''Well, given that a lot of the people they provide with jobs are
[MarkeTroid
]s, would we not be better off without 'em? ;)'' -- GreigMcGill
+See also:
+*
[FUD
]
+* MicrosoftDirtyTricks
+* [The Halloween Documents | http://www.opensource.org/halloween/]
+* MicrosoftQuotes
-TODO: a list of MS
[FUD
] links
, Halloween document
, DRM stuff, whatever could
be interesting
+----
+AsSeenOnSlashdot,
[The Microsoft Prayer | http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=67949&cid=6228940
].
+
+ Our father
, who art in Redmond
+ <br> Microsoft be thy name
+ <br> Thy monopoly come
, thy will
be done
+ <br> throughout the earth as it is in the US.
+ <br> Give us this day, our daily license activation key
+ <br> And forgive us our bug reports
+ <br> as we forgive our system crashes
+ <br> And lead us not into competition
+ <br> But deliver us from innovation
+ <br> For thine is the Control, and the Power and the Greed
+ <br> Forever. Amen.
+
+----
+CategoryCompany
