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> First of all, I don't understand why Microsoft is doing this. For money. All companies do things for money. > so it's not like they need the few cents adver
by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> First of all, I don't understand why Microsoft is doing this.
For money. All companies do things for money.
> so it's not like they need the few cents advertising generates.
Few cents? Advertising is behind some of the most profitable companies in the world today.
> Probably the windows group trying to up their own numbers, not noting they are hurting the company as whole.
When windows 10 was released, MSFT had a market cap of around $400 billion. Today it has a market cap of $1.4 trillion. If the windows group is hurting microsoft, that isn't being reflected in its market cap.
- abacadaba 6y agoNot enough to offset their continuing monopoly in productivity software, but it's certainly kept me from buying a Windows device. n=1, ymmv, etc.
- untog 6y agoEveryone on HN is an outlier, though. We’re very atypical users.
- cameronbrown 6y agoThe word monopoly gets thrown around like it's nothing these days. Google Docs and LibreOffice also exist.
- xref 6y agoMonopoly and anti-competitive go hand in hand, though I don’t think Office has anything to worry about currently. Alternatives to google search exist but they’ve still been declared a monopoly by the EU, with something like a 90% share of searches. In the US we’ve blocked cell phone company mergers that would take them over 40% share for comparison. Of the office suite front Gsuite has ~57% share and MSOffice ~43%
- AlchemistCamp 6y agoI used Windows almost exclusively from mid 2016 to mid 2018. Ads, tracking I couldn't get rid of and annoying questions on the beautiful login screens drove me back to a Mac for most things, despite the bad video card other hardware deficiencies.
- rightbyte 6y agoYe I hate those "Haha I wont tell you where this butieful island is click to know more" clickbaits. I am fine with the pictures they are nice. But the click bait link is distracting.