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embrace, extend and extinguish

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.99 in modern English

Syllables
em-brace, ex-tend and ex-tin-guish
IPA
52
Scrabble Score
26
Letters
5
Syllables
15
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Etymology

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

Synonyms

EEE

Questions

What does embrace, extend and extinguish mean?
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.
Where does embrace, extend and extinguish come from?
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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