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Microsoft spent the 2000s defending Windows and Office while competitors moved to the web. These pages follow the products, statements and legal fights from that period and what came of them.
For a decade Microsoft treated Linux as its biggest threat, with leaked memos, cost studies and patent claims. Linux supporters answered every round, and in the end Microsoft joined them.
Bill Gates gave up the chief executive job in 2000 and stopped working full-time at Microsoft in 2008. The eight years between were a long, staged handover through antitrust cases and a changing industry.