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@lightweight I don't think this article even touches the extent of Microsoft bribery, because most of it is probably legal (or legal enough to make pursuing it too costly); bribes to professors and influencers have been documented in the past, but the bribes to corporate IT departments haven't been documented enough. (I'm playing a little loose with "bribe" to include strongarm tactics.)
I've been fostering this suspicion, since the late '90s, where I saw a well working and...
@lightweight ...highly efficient Unix IT department/system getting replaced by Windows in the company. This was a company with tens of thousands of computer users. This was back when a Windows NT server could only support 50 users and would crash more than once a week. Even accounting for greed driving support burden (backups, antivirus, app installation, etc.) down to the user; more servers, more IT staff, less data security, etc., are huge costs, that made little sense.