Thursday, January 25, 2007
Taken from http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/01/24/microsoft.wikipedia.ap/index.html
Wikipedia is known to be a free- for -all online encyclopedia.
Articles written are correctable by users in order to add more information or, to neutralize the biased information given.
Recently, Microsoft has tried to approach and pay a writer to change the " inaccuracies" in Microsoft description.
Below is an extract from the Microsoft article in Wikipedia:
" With what is generally described as a developer-centric business culture, Microsoft has become widely known for some of its internal codes of conduct for its employees.
[17] One example is the principle
"eat your own dog food", which describes the practice of using pre-release products inside the company to test them in an environment geared towards the real world.
[18] Microsoft has been convicted of
monopolistic business practices — the
U.S. Justice Department, among others, has sued Microsoft for
antitrust violations and software bundling.
[19] The slogan "
embrace, extend, and extinguish" is often used to describe Microsoft's strategy for entering product categories involving widely-used standards, extending those standards with
proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage its competitors.
[20] In addition, Microsoft has been criticised for the insecurity of its software.
"
With this small paragraph, we can understand that it is unfair to describe Microsoft in this manner. However, if Microsoft wanted to pay someone to change the contents, would it mean that they are trying to cover up certain things?
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