This may no longer be common knowledge, but Microsoft had a reputation of holding meetings with smaller companies, purportedly in preparation for an acquisition or partnership. After several meetings of picking their brains, they'd just rip of their idea and build it themselves.

Yes! This was a recurring news item in Boardwatch for years.

This was so well known the Simpson did a joke about it

It worked with Apple. They turned MS-DOS into Windows.

The Borg…

Bill Gates is a parasite and as we all found out, a pedophile.

All corporations are evil but Microsoft is on a whole another level