Lars Ottesen Henriksen

Embrace, extend and extinguish

June 1st, 2008 by Lars Ottesen Henriksen

With all the talks about OOXML vs. ODF and the fact that Microsoft has decided to implement ODF support, some people have mentioned a really interesting tactic used by Microsoft on several earlier occasions, which I though was worth sharing: Embrace, extend and extinguish. Interesting read!

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Lars Ottesen Henriksen is a Civil Engineer in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Southern Denmark. He currently works in Copenhagen, but still lives in Odense which means he spends 4 hours on the train each day. Sometimes this time is used for writing, which is what you see above. > More

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