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Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the [[Microsoft Windows]] line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer web browser. Its flagship hardware products are [[Xbox]] game console and the Microsoft Surface series of tablets. It is the world's largest software maker measured by revenues. It is also one of the world's most valuable companies.
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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.
* [[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.
* [[Demonization]]: [[Linux]] absolutely ''terrified'' Microsoft at the turn of the century. They did ''everything'' they could to paint it 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"].
* [[Playful Hacker]]: Basically founded by a couple, and given what can be found hidden it its products (like the infamous Windows API call BozosLiveHere and its other creatively-named companions, a flight simulator inside Excel, and other goodies) it's pretty clear that they continue to employ more than a few.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them]]: Was infamous for this kind of attitude throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, defying even antitrust investigations to continue doing business the way it wanted. Among the abuses it engaged -- and still engages -- in is the practice of forcing PC manufacturers to pay a license fee for Windows on every machine they create -- whether it ships with Windows on it or not.
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