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From the history of Microsoft (part 1)
by Georgi Guninski Sat 03 Oct 2020 08:51:30 AM UTC, version 1.0 History is written by the winners, so here we write: --- * [Microsoft accidentally distributes virus July 28, 2002](https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-accidentally-distributes-virus/) The software giant's Korean-language version of Visual Studio .Net carries the virulent Nimda computer virus to Asia. --- * [Ballmer: 'Linux is a cancer' Sat 2 Jun 2001](https://www.theregister.com/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/) Contaminates all other software with Hippie GPL rubbish. Microsoft CEO and incontinent over-stater of facts Steve Ballmer said that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," during a commercial spot masquerading as a interview with the Chicago Sun-Times on June 1, 2001. --- * [Halloween documents: August 1998 - March 2004](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Halloween_documents&oldid=971686391). The Halloween documents comprise a series of confidential Microsoft memoranda on potential strategies relating to free software, open-source software, and to Linux in particular, and a series of media responses to these memoranda. Both the leaked documents and the responses were published by Eric S. Raymond in 1998. --- * [Bill Gates is an android user: 26 Sep 2017](https://www.theregister.com/2017/09/26/bill_gates_android_user/) **%**RIP Windows Phone, we are not crying much. --- * [Weird garbled Windows 7 update baffles world – now Microsoft reveals the truth: 30 Sep 2015](https://www.theregister.com/2015/09/30/windows_update_glitch/) Its description mostly contained garbled text. Links for more information, help, and support were filled in with gibberish URLs with ".gov," ".mil," and ".edu" domains. --- * [m$ is linux vendor: 27 Jun 2019](https://www.theregister.com/2019/06/27/microsoft_linux_distro_list/) 2001: Linux is cancer, says Microsoft. 2019: Hey friends, ah, can we join the official linux-distros mailing list, plz? We tried to [speak up](https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q3/8), the oss vendor crowd liked m$. --- * Closed source, source leaked and widely open. Possibly to fit Microsoft better in the so called open source community, unknown forces [leaked m$' sources](https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=windows%20source%20leaked). [MS hacked! Russian mafia swipes WinME source? 27 Oct 2000](https://www.theregister.com/2000/10/27/ms_hacked_russian_mafia_swipes/)