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>Search is to Google what Windows was/is to Microsoft then, their core business, but all other efforts/products/services seemed fringy. How did the rest of the
by aguyfromnb 6y ago
>Search is to Google what Windows was/is to Microsoft then, their core business, but all other efforts/products/services seemed fringy.
How did the rest of the story go, though? Microsoft now has a growing suite of great products that are no longer "fringe".
There's some middle ground between practices like this article and preventing companies from innovating in spaces outside their core business.
- 101404 6y agoThe Dancing Monkey left the company, after that Microsoft got better.
- wayneftw 6y agoAfter he doubled the company profits during his tenure. I guess if you have nothing really valuable to say, resort to name calling though am I right?
- 101404 6y agoThe topic was why Microsoft's products now are so much better than they used to be in the late 90s and early 00s. The reason was, that Ballmer left the company. Sure he doubled the profits... by selling crap using shady methods. So, what are you upset about? Because I used his commonly understood nick name to say it?
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y ago> After he doubled the company profits during his tenure. That's what somebody in his position would claim. A more objective statement would be: "The company profits doubled during his tenure". Besides, we have no idea what would have happened if a Pichai-style leader professing love for open source and sound understanding of the role of the Internet appeared instead.
- luckylion 6y ago> How did the rest of the story go, though? Microsoft now has a growing suite of great products that are no longer "fringe". Sounds like it helps if your monopolist tactics get stopped, the company has incentive to actually offer valuable products and innovate and voila, stuff happens.