* [[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/ | Linux is a Cancer]] -- Steve Ballmer, CEO (2001)
* [[http://www.linux.com/feature/8374 | Linux is un-American]] -- Jim Allchin, Windows chief officer (2001)
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- * Linux TCP/IP stack slower than Windows 2000's
* Microsoft behind SCO's "smoking gun" claims against Linus Torvalds
* Attempted patent deal with [[http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/1720201 Red Hat and Canonical]] (2007)
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=== Targeting hardware vendors ===
* [[http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/15/technology/microsoft_olpc.fortune/index.htm | Undisclosed deal between Bill Gates and Nicholas Negroponte]], disrupting OLPC (2008)
* Dumping Linux in Australia on the Asus EEE PC (2008)
+=== Internet market share ===
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+ * Commissioning [[http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/07/0531210 | biased benchmarks]] to make Windows look better than Linux (2005)
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+ * Make IIS look better in [[http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/04/06/april_2006_web_server_survey.html | Netcraft's web server survey]] by convincing domain registrars to use Windows servers for parked domains (2006)
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=== Targeting Apple ===
* Fake "Mac switchers" campaign with stock photos of models