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.
the fuck?
it’s a pun with the Tarantino movie. Maybe not totally aproppiate
Inappropriate, IMO. I read it as [discussion of] a desire to murder the actual person.
yeah, I changed it. I don’t want to express desire of murdering anyone, just to take down Microsoft as a company. Thanks
It’s still irrelevant, no? I thought Bill Gates no longer had any role at Microsoft.
normally shareholders have a word on the actions of a company, after all it’s their money that is invested and profits are to be expected.
I don’t perceive that as offensive
Yeah, that’s weird. Outside of Microsoft as a company, Bill Gates has done a lot of good in this world. He isn’t perfect, but he is one of the “better” billionaires (if such a thing exists).
Bill Gates is throwing his resources into the #warOnCash (effectively, war on privacy) via his involvement with the betterthancashalliance.org scumbags.
I’ve heard all the charity expenditure is 100% tax avoidance strategy & not a dime more, unlike William Buffet who gets credit for donating more than tax optimums & also getting other billionaires to give more (just a rumor… that bit is beyond me).
I don’t believe better billionaires are a thing. Bill Gates has done a lot of shady stuff, but he’s incredibly good at covering that up on the media. Anyway, I changed the title of that section because it was inappropriate (even if it was a reference to the movie).
I think the entire Bill Gates section can be omitted, when he’s had nothing to do with Microsoft for a long time now. Even if you hate him, there’s no point elaborating about him when this is an essay on Microsoft, and not Bill Gates. You could mention him briefly at the beginning of the article saying how he was the co-founder, but that’s all that would be relevant. Everything else should be written from the perspective of Microsoft, even if Bill Gates was the person behind that action, because once again, you’re writing an essay about a company.
Bill Gates still owns around 0.9% of Microsoft, which is a lot for such a big company. (edit: which makes him the fourth mayor shareholder source)
I get your point and maybe the Bill Gates part should be it’s own thing. Thanks for your feedback, I’ll talk about it with my friend.