5 ms·
Why would MS want to extinguish a successful technology that they just bought?
by devrelm 11y ago
Why would MS want to extinguish a successful technology that they just bought?
- RandomBK 11y agoEmbrace a new technology Extend with proprietary functionality Extinguish the competition
- BinaryIdiot 11y agoEven though it's based on Microsoft's existing technology? That saying just doesn't make sense here...
- threeseed 11y agoYou make absolutely no sense. The competition for .Net isn't Xamarin. It's the Java platform.
- craigvn 11y agoMaybe their strategy is to bundle the Bing toolbar with the Xamarin installer.
- jenscow 11y agoI thought that with Skype, then Nokia.
- sirkneeland 11y agoNokia was not successful (by any definition of the word) by the time Microsoft bought it.
- gnoway 11y agoThat's true, they weren't. Several years before that purchase, Stephen Elop (an MS executive) became CEO of Nokia. Within 6 months of his hire, Nokia signed an agreement with MS to sell Windows Phone devices; the classic Symbian OS and the Linux-based Meego - both of which had shipping hardware - were canceled in favor of exclusive focus on Windows Phone. Within the next few years, Nokia laid off over 20k people, their stock dropped by about 85%, and they even sold and then leased back their HQ in Finland. They were a lot less successful by that point, and a lot less expensive to purchase. Which Microsoft did. There was some amount of controversy associated with the above.
- rbanffy 11y ago> There was some amount of controversy associated with the above. Can't see why. It's obvious Microsoft perfected executive outplacement as an offensive weapon.
- sirkneeland 11y agoBelieve me I know. I was there. Although technically MeeGo had no shipping hardware at the time. The N900 ran Maemo, the first (and sadly only) MeeGo hardware to ship to the public was the N9 which didn't ship until months after the "burning platform" announcement
- junto 11y agoNokia was a patent bundle firesale.
- tellarin 11y agoInteresting, as no Nokia patents were bought by Microsoft. MS licensed their patents, but the current profitable Nokia kept them and has a unit dedicated to research and IP. One can argue that the licensing was cheap, but cross-licensing agreements between companies is very common.
- carc 11y agoHow is Microsoft extinguishing Skype? I've seen no such evidence personally
- mixedCase 11y agoThe Linux client no longer works and they filled the Windows client with ads and senseless bloat.
- marssaxman 11y agoBecause Microsoft's decisions have always been driven as much by its byzantine internal politics as by any rational perspective on the market?