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Borg (Disambiguation)Borg can refer to: - Borg, fictional race of aliens
- A contraction of cyborg
- Borganism, another referent to cyborg or cybernetic organism, although, while cyborgs refers to a single organism, a borganism refers to a collective conciousness that is an emergent phenomenon of a highly networked Borg civilization.
- Bjrn Borg, tennis player
- Joe Borg, Maltese politician
- Oscar Borg, Norwegian composer
- Borg, Norwegian brand of beer
- Borg cloth or Borg fabric was a synthetic made by the Borg textile corporation of Georgia
- Marcus Borg, Religious scholar
- The term "borg" was used in Star Wars comics as early as 1978 to refer to cyborgs (cf. Star Wars's use of "droid" for "android").
Hacker jargon Borg, slang verb meaning to ruthlessly assimilate something — often used amongst PC users in reference to large companies' behaviour. To be a user of a Microsoft-based system is to be "assimilated" or "Borged." This is an allusion to Microsoft's wide consumer base. There is a popular picture in circulation through the Internet displaying Bill Gates as a Borg. Postings on the slashdot technology website relating to Microsoft have a graphic of Bill Gates as a Borg. Microsoft itself is sometimes referred to as "The Borg", reflecting its tendency towards acquiring technology instead of developing it in-house. This started with its purchase of QDOS from the now-defunct Seattle Computer, which Microsoft renamed MS-DOS, its first widely successful product. The list of products based on technology developed by other companies includes Windows Media Player, the ActiMates Barney products, Content Management Server (CMS), originally developed by NCompass Labs, and many others. (It must be noted, however, that this approach is typical to many large companies.) Microsoft, like the Borg, also has the ability to adapt to and overwhelm its opponents' strategies: initial attacks against it may have some limited success, but once it has adapted and unified its efforts against its foes, the outcome is usually the same. "Borging" also refers to installing a distributed computing project executable on a business or university computer.
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