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BOYCOTT - Microsoft
REASON - As suspected since early on in Gamergate and all but proven with S4Ts investigative digging, Microsoft have been 'playing both sides'. To summarize, they have long been researching the game-ification of education, but recently dramatically shifted their technique away from a quiet and rational out-of-sight affair into a full-on media barrage aimed at existing gamer culture. All the faces we've come to know, MacIntosh, Anita, Kate Edwards, Dana Boyd, Ito family, Orland family, Jimmy Wales, DiGRA, and tangentially Silverstring and LW, have connections aplenty with Microsoft, both direct and through other places like the MacArthur Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Creative Commons, Mozilla and the Brookings Institute.
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ACTION - Don't buy Xbox or Microsoft Games Studio published games, cancel Xbox Live Gold memberships, move from Windows to Linux, don't buy computers with Windows pre-installed.
ALTERNATIVES - Switch to Sony, Nintendo and Valve for systems and games. Install Ubuntu or another easy-to-access linux distro as a dual boot.
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