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By this logic, they are also currently Embracing and Extending Windows, Office, etc. This doesn't make sense to me. It's their original products, not something
by throwaway50182 3y ago
By this logic, they are also currently Embracing and Extending Windows, Office, etc. This doesn't make sense to me. It's their original products, not something they embraced and plan on extinguishing.
- prometheon1 3y agoWindows and Office are both mentioned as products that are leveraged to do EEE on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... They are not extinguishing their own products, but using their products to extinguish alternatives. The example I mentioned actually fits the wikipedia definition quite well in my opinion.
- mjw1007 3y agoCSS was to a large extent a Microsoft project (when the time came to introduce stylesheets it was more-or-less Opera and Microsoft against Netscape, and Microsoft had many more users than Opera). Nonetheless Microsoft managed to use CSS to achieve a great deal of user lock-in by refusing to conform to the standard they co-authored.
- throwaway50182 3y agoWell then that's clearly not EEE. There can be more predatory market strategies than just EEE.
- prometheon1 3y ago- Embrace the web with Internet Explorer. - Extend the web with CSS as an open standard. - Extinguish competition by being the main browser and not following the CSS standard. Still follows the recipe quite well in my opinion.