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Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 04:20:57 JST Robert Link
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  Embrace, extend, and extinguish
  
  "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found that was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences in order to strongly disadvantage its competitors. Origin The strategy and phrase "embrace and extend" were first described outside Microsoft in a 1996 article in The New York Times titled "Tomorrow, the World Wide Web! Microsoft, the PC King, Wants to Reign Over the Internet", in which writer John Markoff said, "Rather than merely embrace and extend the Internet, the company's critics now fear, Microsoft intends to engulf it." The phrase "embrace and extend" also appears in a facetious motivational song by an anonymous Microsoft employee, and in an interview of Steve Ballmer by The New York Times.A variant of the phrase, "embrace, extend then innovate", is used in J Allard's 1994 memo "Windows: The Next Killer Application on...
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  AlmaLinux (almalinux@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 04:20:58 JST AlmaLinux
  
  Exciting news: Microsoft has made #AlmaLinux an endorsed #Linux distro! 🙌
  🔗 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Azure-Endorses-AlmaLinux
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    Linux Use On Microsoft Azure Crosses 60%, AlmaLinux Now An Endorsed Distro
    
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    For years there have been statements about how over half of the VMs running within the Microsoft Azure public cloud are Linux-based..

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