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* [[Defictionalization]]: 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]] 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"].
** The have since eased off on Linux and open-source, as all attempts to destroy them failed and have even embraced both to some degree. Granted, they still try to promote their stuff as superior, but this has become a [[Discredited Trope]].
* [[Easter Egg]]: Used to be a fairly common occurrence in Microsoft products, in part due to the large numbers of [[Playful Hacker]]s among the employees and management, but Microsoft eventually disallowed Easter eggs entirely as part of its Trustworthy Computing Initiative. See the trope page for some of the most fondly remembered examples from days past.
* [[Idiot Programming]]: To the extent that Microsoft has ''its own section'' on the trope page.
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