Microsoft
What comes to mind?
Three voices, one brand
In 2009 the crowd led with a verdict, not a product.
Microsoft says Empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.. Claude says windows. People said evil and bill.
What Microsoft says
“Empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.”
Microsoft's stated company mission, as published on microsoft.com.
The only one of these three voices Microsoft controls.
Claude
windows
Sep 6, 2026 · asked once · word size = its own estimate, not a count
What people actually said
top 18 of 2009The first word was not a product. “Evil” ranked 1st, ahead of “windows”, ahead of “bill” and “gates”, ahead of “software”. “Monopoly” was 6th.
Ranks come from the list above. Any context is public record — not our judgement of Microsoft.
Word size = how many people said it. Ringed words are the ones AI never produced.
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How people saw Microsoft
Recovered from the original brandtags.net, captured Feb 14, 2009. Word size reflects the order that site ranked them in. We publish it as a record of what it displayed — we did not collect it and have not verified any of it.
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