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He stepped in in 2000, with microsoft being the top dog of the tech world, and left in 2014 with them not even being one of the "big four". Right now Apple, Am
by ido 10y ago
He stepped in in 2000, with microsoft being the top dog of the tech world, and left in 2014 with them not even being one of the "big four".
Right now Apple, Amazon, Google & HP are all bigger (in terms of revenue) than Microsoft:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_information_technology_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_informatio...
- sangnoir 10y ago> He stepped in in 2000, with microsoft being the top dog of the tech world, and left in 2014 with them not even being one of the "big four". It seems we are in agreement - being overtaken =/= stagnation. A more convincing argument would have been if their revenues had plateued under Ballmer (they didn't - revenue grew by 280% from $25B to $70B in 2014).