I’m helping a friend of mine writing a long essay exposing the abusive, monopolistic and anti-consumer practices of Microsoft. First, we’ve created some sort of table of contents with the different topics we want to cover and now we’re gathering sources for each of these topics.

Microsoft is a huge corporation with a big influence on media and although if you dig enough you can find useful sources, they’ve also made an extremely good job at hiding bad press from search engines.

We’ve scrolled through Hacker News, other links aggregators and sites like TechRights and we’ve found a good amount of articles against Microsoft. But we’re sure there has to be more. So that’s kinda why we’re asking.

Bullet points for the sections we’ve thought of (suggestions are welcome too):

* The Microsoft Monopoly
		* Microsoft and the web
				* Internet Explorer
				* Microsoft Edge
		* Microsoft Windows Monopoly
		* Microsoft and the Governments
				* Education
				* Healthcare
		* Microsoft Gaming Empire
* Windows Backdoors (not sure where this section belongs)
		* Work with the NSA
* Microsoft loves Open Source (microsoft infiltration in foss)
		* Microsoft and the OSI
		* Github
				* Github Copilot
		* VSCode
		* War on GPL
		* Microsoft loves Linux and BSD?
		* Embrace, extend, extinguish
* Our lord, Bill Gates
		* The media empire
				* Twitter censorship
		* Bill Gates the philanthropist
				* Big Pharma
		* Bill and Jeffrey Epstein

Edit: typos and removed the pun “Kill Bill Gates” because it seemed inappropriate.

  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
    9·
    10 months ago

    You need a chapter on “Microsoft and Kerberos”. They adopted Kerberos for Active Directory and at the same time literally wrote the Kerberos RFC saying specifically how to use it across a large enterprise.

    Then they didn’t implement it that way.

    They intentionally made it so that Active Directory doesn’t follow the Kerberos standard they they wrote. So if you follow the standard you won’t actually be compatible with Active Directory. It’s one of their more subtle, “Embrace Extend Extinguish” maneuvers. Most people don’t know about it because the only company impacted at the time was Novell (and they won their legal stuff against Microsoft… with a settlement).