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embrace, extend and extinguish

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  • phrase 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.

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

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