Microsoft, Masking/Hiding Itself Behind Patent Trolls, is Still Engaging in Patent Extortion | Linux Today

Microsoft, Masking/Hiding Itself Behind Patent Trolls, is Still Engaging in Patent Extortion

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Roy Schestowitz
Jan 19, 2018

A review of Microsoft’s ugly tactics, which involve coercion and extortion (for businesses to move to Azure and/or for OEMs to preload Microsoft software) while Microsoft-connected patent trolls help hide the “enforcement” element in this whole racket

RS

Roy Schestowitz

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