You've criticized me for our votes.

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Published in Mandarin, Up Against the Wind: Microsoft, IBM and Me criticized the hard line the company took on piracy and its refusal to lower software prices to take into account the poverty of the average Chinese.

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My efforts were often ridiculed and criticized, but since no one provided me a technically sound reason to the contrary, I continued.

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In Nicaragua I was taught to have respect for other cultures not by examining theoretical anthropological concepts of cultural relativism (which I did later study), but by having my behavior scrutinized and overtly criticized by the people whose homes had been opened to me as part of the trip.

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What hit me more than the software features though, which have been criticized for their complexity, are two things.

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Others included more effective employee training, extending hours, redesigning the look of its stores to appeal more effectively to younger consumers, and getting rid of the Super-Size option (which had been criticized by health groups and was unfavorably portrayed in the 2004 documentary Super Size Me).

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