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Microsoft became aware of i4i when the firm was tapped by the U.S. government after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to help “connect the dots” between different agencies, Mr. Vulpe said. Rather than licence i4i's technology, Microsoft chose instead to just incorporate it into its Word products, he added.
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Anyone keeping track of the number of times MS has done this? It's a great argument for limiting the size of corporations.
For those that don’t know, to get a MS windows logo on your product you have to send them copies of your source code and hardware schematics. |
Indeed. It seems that most of Microsoft's best-known products were either bought, copied from, or outright stolen from someone else. A "Microsoft innovation" is more or less a contradiction in terms, so far as I can tell.
Cheers,
Michael