E3 -- Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Stems from at least the 1990's. The MS behavior as opposed to the term can be argued to pre-date that decade. I'll just remind people who may think I'm being old, crotchety, and living in the past, that this has been a repeated pattern of theirs that has resurfaced so often and reliably as to become considered by many to be a core component of MS culture. Repeated including in the f…
Almost nobody who even worked at Microsoft in 1996 still actually works at Microsoft. You are bringing up something said in one meeting from when floppy disks were still pretty important to the computing world. I can't fathom a single statement from 1996 about a computer company that is still accurate today, and EEE falls into that category as well.
Instead of helping and pushing the industry forward like Google does instead we have them hurting the industry. They buy GitHub and we will have a mess as FB, Google and the others that contribute to the greater good of the industry will have to go else where and we have a fragmentation mess. Google gave us map/reduce and K8s and so many incredible papers and a big one is VP8 and VP9 stopping the mpegla from trying to extort ridiculous license fees.
Or finding all the big security vulnerabilities like Shellshock, meltdown, Cloudbleed, Heartbleed Spectre and so many more and sharing and helping the entire industry.
I swear MS just does not want us to have nice things.