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Hoax?!
This edit removes one whole side of the story with the comment that it was a 'hoax'. I'm editing on a smartphone at the moment, so multiple tabs, copy and paste and so on are difficult, but it seems clear from the first ref deleted that, although the word monopolise is not used, the sense is described in some detail. The second ref  uses the word, and describes the details. I can't get to the original Dr Dobbs article at the moment, directly or via the wayback machine, but it seems that this wholesale deletion of text and citations was not fair, and that there is no evidence that claims of Microsoft's EEE strategy were a hoax. --Nigelj (talk) 22:45, 1 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Yes, I was confused about that too. Microsoft critics certainly say the strategy was anti-competitive and monopolistic.

Cruelty isn’t even the right word, Extinguishers at Microsoft HQ
When I became a manager I was forced to stack rank and kill off several people. It was the cruelest, most vicious form of management ever devised. The philosophy was to get rid of the bottom 10% and refresh the ranks. I found myself forced to get rid of people who had devoted many years of service to MSFT’s success but had either burned out or had suffered some other life crisis (illness, death, divorce etc) which caused them to rank last. So rather than work to improve our people we got rid of the heart of MSFT culture. I hated it. I loathed it. And it caused me to burn out too. I left in 2000. Just in time to miss the burst of the Tech bubble. Yet our district manager, (who shall remain nameless), thrived in all of this chaos and turned it into a lucrative career. Such was the politics of MSFT at the time. Kinda like the old Star Trek parallel universe episode. Where you advanced by forming alliances and killing off your competition. And hence the decline of MSFT since the late 90’s. Yet some people came out on top. Cruelty isn’t even the right word. Many did commit suicide. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.224.98.230 (talk) 15:06, 6 October 2016 (UTC)