...says Axios, an outlet infamous for obsequious coverage of the wealthy and well-connected. In Tech, Microsoft is old money, thus this puff piece. Just this

...says Axios, an outlet infamous for obsequious coverage of the wealthy and well-connected. In Tech, Microsoft is old money, thus this puff piece. Just this year Microsoft's Outlook service had a massive breach, leaking ~800 million passwords. Their flagship product, Windows 10, is infamous for randomly blocking people from working. The recent October automatic update even went ahead and just deleted users' files. Remembebr Windows Phones? Remember Bing? MSN is still live... so I guess it outlasted Google Plus. I guess since its efforts in social media are a whisper of a joke, that by default they're "winning" ? More likely it's just Axios being Axios. meanwhile .. https://www.forbes.com/powerful-brands/list/ https://www.forbes.com/powerful-brands/list/, http://www.millwardbrown.com/brandz/rankings-and-reports/top-us-brands/2019 http://www.millwardbrown.com/brandz/rankings-and-reports/top..., and any other extant brand ranking shows Microsoft pretty far from the top