embrace, extend and extinguish

phrase

Etymology

Formerly used internally by Microsoft. First described outside Microsoft in a 1996 New York Times article entitled "Microsoft Trying to Dominate the Internet".

Definitions

  1. A strategy of marketing that involves extending widely used standards of product…

    A strategy of marketing that involves extending widely used standards of product categories with proprietary capabilities, and then using the differences to disadvantage its competitors.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for embrace, extend and extinguish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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