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Microsoft Ends Tradition of Naming Competitors in Regulatory Filings (cnbc.com) 9

Microsoft has abandoned a decades-long tradition of calling out the names of its rivals in regulatory documents. From a report: When the 50-year-old technology company released its annual report Wednesday, the 101-page document contained zero references to longtime foes Apple and IBM.

Nor did it mention privately held challengers such as Anthropic or Databricks. Last year's Microsoft annual report officially designated over 25 companies as competitors. The names of Microsoft's enemies have appeared in its annual reports at least since 1994.

Microsoft Ends Tradition of Naming Competitors in Regulatory Filings

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  • "enemies list"

    potato... potato, I guess.
  • by Anonymous Coward
    Rather than "calling out the names", they could call them names... "Crooked Tim Apple", "Failing IBM",...
  • EoC. Guess the CLEANING WOMAN purged them.

  • They were outcompeted and are giving up. They're in the process of folding up shop, and liquidating everything, even though they just laid off thousands to push their market cap to four trillion dollar mark.

    • They were outcompeted and are giving up. They're in the process of folding up shop, and liquidating everything, even though they just laid off thousands to push their market cap to four trillion dollar mark.

      You forgot to wedge in something about Linux completely destroying them, since it's managed to almost eek out 5% market share.

      • by Anonymous Coward

        it's managed to almost eek out 5% market share.

        "eke" - "eek!" is for the Scooby gang.

    • Right! They're having such a tough time, they just became the second company to reach a $4 trillion valuation, second only to NVidia. Pretty rough indeed.

    • More like, they're so confident in themselves, and they're so entrenched in the markets they care about, that they are no longer concerned with the competition.

  • by Anonymous Coward
    “Microsoft Ends Tradition of Naming Competitors in Regulatory Filings”

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