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"OSS and Government", aka "Halloween VIII: Doing the Damage-Control Dance", is a memo from Group Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Orlando Ayala, to general managers of Microsoft regional subsidiaries. It describes the availability of support from Microsoft corporate for regional sales personnel facing competition from Linux in government markets.
Leaked Microsoft memo tells managers not to use budget cuts as an explainer for lack of pay rises: ‘Reinforce that every year offers unique opportunity for impact’ Orianna Rosa Royle August 29 ...
Bill Gates launched Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative with a January 15, 2002 memo, [10] referencing an internal whitepaper by Microsoft CTO and Senior Vice President Craig Mundie. [11]
"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 ...
In Microsoft QBasic, there is an Easter Egg where the developers credits can be seen at start up, printed in colorful text, flying in one letter at a time from every corner. [36] Acid1 is included as an offline Easter Egg, accessible by typing 'about: tasman', in Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS with the text replaced by the names of the ...
Microsoft later submitted a second inaccurate videotape into evidence. The issue was how easy or difficult it was for America Online users to download and install Netscape Navigator onto a Windows PC. Microsoft's videotape showed the process as being quick and easy, resulting in the Netscape icon appearing on the user's desktop.
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"An Open Letter to Hobbyists" is a 1976 open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the widespread duplication of software taking place in the hobbyist community, particularly with regard to his company's software.