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The Mac vs PC wars seems to have mostly passed. If not back when Gates actually invested in Apple when Jobs came back as CEO, then certainly when desktops lost
by matt4077 8y ago
The Mac vs PC wars seems to have mostly passed. If not back when Gates actually invested in Apple when Jobs came back as CEO, then certainly when desktops lost their primacy among devices and growth stagnated. It also became clear that market shares would remain roughly stable.
MS earns its money selling 7-digit support contracts for databases and other enterprisy products. More and more, they will go the way of IBM and shift to services.
To remain invested in some sort of petty tribalism proscribing individual choices in tools would just be embarrassing at this point.
It may also be harmful, causing its workforce not to notice good ideas first appearing on other platforms, scaring away people not willing to work with (in their view) inferior tools, and risking to end up with a shortage of expertise when they decide to expand on non-windows platforms.