embrace, extend and extinguish
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Formerly used internally by Microsoft. First described outside Microsoft in a 1996 New York Times article entitled "Microsoft Trying to Dominate the Internet".
Phrase[edit]
embrace, extend and extinguish
- 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.