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E3 -- Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Stems from at least the 1990's. The MS behavior as opposed to the term can be argued to pre-date that decade. I'll just re

E3 -- Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Stems from at least the 1990's. The MS behavior as opposed to the term can be argued to pre-date that decade. I'll just remind people who may think I'm being old, crotchety, and living in the past, that this has been a repeated pattern of theirs that has resurfaced so often and reliably as to become considered by many to be a core component of MS culture. Repeated including in the face of DoJ prosecution and monitoring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

ocdtrekkie 8y ago
Almost nobody who even worked at Microsoft in 1996 still actually works at Microsoft. You are bringing up something said in one meeting from when floppy disks were still pretty important to the computing world. I can't fathom a single statement from 1996 about a computer company that is still accurate today, and EEE falls into that category as well.
- hapnin 8y ago
  "postmaster@nsa.gov" is probably still true. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
  - jwilk 8y ago
    Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
- craftyguy 8y ago
  Company culture is a thing, and like other cultures it doesn't require the original folks to keep it going once it has been established.
- jacksmith21006 8y ago
  But with the latest news that MS is looking at buying GitHub demonstrates nothing has changed at MS. Instead of helping and pushing the industry forward like Google does instead we have them hurting the industry. They buy GitHub and we will have a mess as FB, Google and the others that contribute to the greater good of the industry will have to go else where and we have a fragmentation mess. Google gave us map/reduce and K8s and so many incredible papers and a big one is VP8 and VP9 stopping the mpegla from trying to extort ridiculous license fees. Or finding all the big security vulnerabilities like Shellshock, meltdown, Cloudbleed, Heartbleed Spectre and so many more and sharing and helping the entire industry. I swear MS just does not want us to have nice things.
zamalek 8y ago
E3 is no longer relevant under Nadella, arguably even before Balmer stepped down.
vezycash 8y ago
>E3 -- Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Doesn't apply to buying the competition.

ocdtrekkie 8y ago

Almost nobody who even worked at Microsoft in 1996 still actually works at Microsoft. You are bringing up something said in one meeting from when floppy disks were still pretty important to the computing world. I can't fathom a single statement from 1996 about a computer company that is still accurate today, and EEE falls into that category as well.

hapnin 8y ago
"postmaster@nsa.gov" is probably still true. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
- jwilk 8y ago
  Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
craftyguy 8y ago
Company culture is a thing, and like other cultures it doesn't require the original folks to keep it going once it has been established.
jacksmith21006 8y ago
But with the latest news that MS is looking at buying GitHub demonstrates nothing has changed at MS. Instead of helping and pushing the industry forward like Google does instead we have them hurting the industry. They buy GitHub and we will have a mess as FB, Google and the others that contribute to the greater good of the industry will have to go else where and we have a fragmentation mess. Google gave us map/reduce and K8s and so many incredible papers and a big one is VP8 and VP9 stopping the mpegla from trying to extort ridiculous license fees. Or finding all the big security vulnerabilities like Shellshock, meltdown, Cloudbleed, Heartbleed Spectre and so many more and sharing and helping the entire industry. I swear MS just does not want us to have nice things.

zamalek 8y ago

E3 is no longer relevant under Nadella, arguably even before Balmer stepped down.

vezycash 8y ago

>E3 -- Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Doesn't apply to buying the competition.