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Xerox

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Corporation

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    (1906- )
    Headquartered in Norwalk, CT
    Business is copiers, displays, faxes, printers, projectors, scanners
    Employs 139,650 (2011)
    NYSE: XRX

Why Xerox might be annoying:

    They make copiers. They make copiers. They make copiers. They make copiers...
    They make copiers, and ironically, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates completely copied their Window, Icon, Menu and Pointing graphical user interface for their operating systems.
    This lost them potentially hundreds of billions of dollars over the years.
    They were then almost bought out by Apple.
    They lost an anti-trust suit which forced them to license their entire patent portfolio to mostly Japanese companies. They dropped from nearly 100% of copiers to less than 14%.
    They paid a $22 million fine for accounting irregularities (2003).

Why Xerox might not be annoying:

    The term 'xerox' is synonymous with 'photocopy' (though they frown on this because it puts them at risk of having the word being declared generic by the courts).
    They invented the first laser printer (1969).
    Their Xerox 8010 Star was the first computer system to incorporate bitmapped display, window-based GUI, the mouse, Ethernet networking, file servers, print servers and e-mail.
    Their Xerox 914 is in the Smithsonian Institution.
    CEO Ursula Burns was the first African American woman to lead a Fortune 500 company (2009).

Credit: D & Captain Howdy


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 11 Votes: 27.27% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 5 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 15 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 36 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 27 Votes: 55.56% Annoying