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Article milestones Date Process Result August 15, 2005 Peer review Reviewed October 14, 2005 Peer review Reviewed October 17, 2005 Featured article candidate Promoted March 30, 2007 Featured article review Kept September 22, 2008 Good topic candidate Not promoted August 2, 2010 Peer review Reviewed July 11, 2014 Featured article review Demoted November 24, 2016 Good article nominee Not listed A news item involving this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "In the news" column on March 19, 2004. Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on April 4, 2009, April 4, 2010, April 4, 2012, April 4, 2021, and April 4, 2023. Current status: Former featured article

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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer

This article contains too many paragraphs in its lead section, making it appear unfocused and inconvenient to read. Maxeto0910 (talk) 16:27, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not the case anymore. This thread can therefore be archived now. Maxeto0910 (talk) 09:33, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In Corporate Culture, the fourth paragraph ends with "after they allowed gender expression". This should be changed to something like "free gender expression" or "stopped discriminating based on gender expression". Gender expression does not mean minority gender expression, cis people also perform gender expression. Timenzan (talk) 12:59, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

windows for workgroup 3.1? 216.247.95.214 (talk) 02:53, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Does our article Windows 3.1 answer your question? It has a section of relevance: Windows_3.1#Windows_for_Workgroups. Commander Keane (talk) 03:31, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For Reference # 9 , stating Xbox Division is the third-largest game company by revenue, it links an article that doesn't say much. It also links as of Nov 2022, but the article has an Oct 2023 publish date. This line and reference should be removed. Sadnehs (talk) 01:04, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Verge article says: "... the company said at the original announcement of this megadeal that it will now be the 'third-largest gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony.'" But yes, this could be improved as the citations are in the wrong place (also based on a company statement). Mellk (talk) 08:16, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would also suggest that this be mentioned in the body first per MOS:LEAD. Mellk (talk) 08:17, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Note: Please use the actual reference you are talking about as well as the citation number instead of just the citation number since the number can change if any reference is added before it in the article. Shadow311 (talk) 18:50, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]