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* [[Army of Lawyers]]
* [[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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* [[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"].
* [[Easter Egg]]: Used to be a fairly common occurrence in Microsoft products, in part due to the large numbers of [[Playful
* [[Idiot Programming]]: To the extent that Microsoft has ''its own section'' on the trope page.
* [[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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