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Seems Microsoft learned nothing from the anti-trust cases of the 90's
by BrockSamson 8y ago
Seems Microsoft learned nothing from the anti-trust cases of the 90's
- weliketocode 8y agoPerhaps the opposite. Seems they've learned to push forward and never again fall behind.
- peterkelly 8y agoTheir punishment wasn't exactly severe
- BrockSamson 8y agoYou do have a very good point
- blackbrokkoli 8y agoWell they did learn to sell a better image convincing even the ever-cynical HackerNews apparently, looking at the threads of last months.
- pabloski 8y agoTrue. Personally I didn't fall for their show and I have continued not to use many of their technologies. .Net Core? No thanks, I have Go, Java, Racket, even Haskell.
- techntoke 8y agoHacker News has been plagued with PR companies pushing the content it wants you to see for some time.
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- liftbigweights 8y agoYou mean when microsoft used their dominant OS position to drive Netscape out of existence? When IE went from 0% browser market share to over 90%? It seems to me they learned a lot. That using monopoly advantage to attack the competition works like a charm and that anti-trust cases are toothless. Microsoft essentially "won" the anti-trust case since they weren't broken up.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoRight, apart from the fact that this was ~20 years ago and they've been losing marketshare ever since, and completely failed at mobile. They're still attacking the competition but they're not doing a very good job of it.
- api 8y agoThey learned to contribute more to political campaigns?