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>Microsoft integrating with competitor's products, this sounds news to me. Or as it was previously known, "Embrace".

• bithush 12y ago
  Indeed. Embrace. Integrate Office with it. Extend. Buy DropBox. Extinguish. Merge DropBox with OneDrive. Wow didn't expect this comment to bring on the downvotes.
  • andybak 12y ago
    That isn't the original meaning of the term "Embrace. Extend. Extinguish." which harks back to the Microsoft monopoly trial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish > The strategy's three phases are:[11] > Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard. > Extend: Addition and promotion of features not supported by the competing product or part of the standard, creating interoperability problems for customers who try to use the 'simple' standard. > Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors that do not or cannot support the new extensions.
    • bithush 12y ago
      True. This is the "new Microsoft" EmExEx meaning.
  • BigChiefSmokem 12y ago
    And how is this different from what every major tech company attempts to do?
  • rsync 12y ago
    For. The. Love. Of. God. Stop meta-commenting on your own downvotes. Don't interject the scoring system into the discussion. It makes you look like a child. An idiot child.
    • bithush 12y ago
      Yes because name calling on the internet is the height of maturity.