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  2. Criticism of Microsoft - Wikipedia

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    Criticism of Microsoft has followed various aspects of its products and business practices. Issues with ease of use, robustness, and security of the company's software are common targets for critics. In the 2000s, a number of malware mishaps targeted security flaws in Windows and other products.

  3. Embrace, extend, and extinguish - Wikipedia

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    "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), [1] also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate", [2] is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found [3] was used internally by Microsoft [4] 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 ...

  4. United States v. Microsoft Corp. - Wikipedia

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    [Microsoft] is widely recognized as the most influential company in the microcomputer-software industry. Claiming more than a million installed MS-DOS machines, founder and chairman Bill Gates has decided to certify Microsoft's jump on the rest of the industry by dominating applications, operating systems , peripherals and, most recently, book ...

  5. Why Microsoft avoided antitrust scrutiny that plagued other ...

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    But Microsoft not only avoided the ire of the public but also the reach of antitrust regulators. ... Microsoft , Yahoo Finance’s Company of the Year and the second-largest company in the U.S. by ...

  6. Microsoft adopts ethical principles aiming to bar misuse of ...

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    In a blog post on Thursday, Microsoft President Brad Smith pushed for urgency in regulating facial-recognition technology, while adding that tech companies should self regulate too. "We believe it ...

  7. Elon Musk questions Microsoft cutting its AI ethics team ...

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    Artificial intelligence is having a big moment right now in the tech industry. OpenAI's ChatGPT recently became the fastest growing app in history. Big Tech companies like Google are making moves ...

  8. Microsoft - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. [2] Founded in 1975, the company became highly influential in the rise of personal computers through software like Windows, and the company has since expanded to Internet services, cloud computing, video gaming and other fields.

  9. Big Tech - Wikipedia

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    The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on September 6, 2001, that it would not seek to break up Microsoft, and would instead seek a lesser penalty if Microsoft agreed to share its APIs with third-party companies and appoint a three-person panel with access to Microsoft's systems, records, and source code for five years. On November 1, 2002 ...