[jansan]

The strategy "Embrace, extend and extinguish" by Microsoft even has its own Wikipedia page.

[jaboutboul]

Conspiracy theory

[mcintyre1994]

It might be when used now, but it was used by Microsoft internally at the time.

First part of that Wikipedia page:

> "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found was used internally by Microsoft 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 its competitors.

[ane]

Now it is. In the late 90s/early 00s it wasn’t. MS is quite different today from what it was back then.

[nophunphil]

You shouldn’t be posting replies like this on a public forum if you’re actually a MS employee.

[rkachowski]

Are you speaking on behalf of Microsoft?

[randunel]

Are you really claiming the US-DoJ are conspiracy theorists?

[jaboutboul]

i should have added an lol to the end of this