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[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.

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.

AddToMe: Palladium / [DRM] stuff.

See also:
* [FUD]
* MicrosoftDirtyTricks
* [The Halloween Documents | http://www.opensource.org/halloween/]
* MicrosoftQuotes

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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.

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