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* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]/[[Sinister Surveillance]]: A growing trend in Windows since the advent of the Internet era, with Windows 10 so thoroughly engaged in reporting what you do back to Microsoft that it all but panics some privacy advocates. |
* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]/[[Sinister Surveillance]]: A growing trend in Windows since the advent of the Internet era, with Windows 10 so thoroughly engaged in reporting what you do back to Microsoft that it all but panics some privacy advocates. |
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* [[Defictionalised]]: An [[April Fool's Day]] article from Infoworld suggested that M$ would completely [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2613504/microsoft-windows/microsoft-skips--too-good--windows-9--jumps-to-windows-10.html skip Windows 9 and go on to Windows 10]. And lo, it came to pass that Windows 9 was skipped. |
* [[Defictionalised]]: An [[April Fool's Day]] article from Infoworld suggested that M$ would completely [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2613504/microsoft-windows/microsoft-skips--too-good--windows-9--jumps-to-windows-10.html skip Windows 9 and go on to Windows 10]. And lo, it came to pass that Windows 9 was skipped. |
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* [[Demonization]]: [[Linux]] absolutely ''terrified'' Microsoft at the turn of the century. They did ''everything'' they could to paint |
* [[Demonization]]: [[Linux]] and Open Source Software in general absolutely ''terrified'' Microsoft at the turn of the century. They did ''everything'' they could to paint them as an immediate and dramatic threat to the survival of Western Civilization. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014, got plenty of press for his attacks on Linux, including calling it [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/ a "cancer" that infects software] and [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/ "communist"]. |
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* [[New Media Are Evil]]: If Microsoft doesn't own them. When the Internet exploded into the popular culture in the late 1990s, Microsoft did everything it could to subvert the Net and turn it into a Microsoft product, treating it and its standards as the next targets of its infamous [[w:Embrace, extend and extinguish|"Embrace, extend and extinguish"]] strategy. (They didn't count on the Net ''fighting back''.) |
* [[New Media Are Evil]]: If Microsoft doesn't own them. When the Internet exploded into the popular culture in the late 1990s, Microsoft did everything it could to subvert the Net and turn it into a Microsoft product, treating it and its standards as the next targets of its infamous [[w:Embrace, extend and extinguish|"Embrace, extend and extinguish"]] strategy. (They didn't count on the Net ''fighting back''.) |
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* [[Obvious Beta]]: It was quite obvious Windows ME was half baked very shortly after release, and even many of its features were partial or broken versions of what Windows XP would later implement successfully. |
* [[Obvious Beta]]: It was quite obvious Windows ME was half baked very shortly after release, and even many of its features were partial or broken versions of what Windows XP would later implement successfully. |
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