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Microsoft's ownership is a kiss of death. See: WebTV, Skype, Yammer, Hotmail, Groove, Danger, et cetera. The kids will always move on to something else.
by riffic 6y ago
Microsoft's ownership is a kiss of death. See: WebTV, Skype, Yammer, Hotmail, Groove, Danger, et cetera.
The kids will always move on to something else.
- samfisher83 6y agoFacebook and Instagram seem to be doing ok.
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoThey haven’t been bought by Microsoft.
- riffic 6y agoMicrosoft has a significant ownership stake in Facebook: http://whoownsfacebook.com/#Microsoft http://whoownsfacebook.com/#Microsoft
- ubercow13 6y agoLinkedin? MSN messenger very cool with us when I was young.
- hilbertseries 6y agoGitHub?
- riffic 6y agoYep, not even GitHub is immune from the Microsoft kiss of death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub#ICE_Contract https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub#ICE_Contract
- tomjakubowski 6y agoICE was a GitHub customer beginning in 2016, before the Microsoft acquisition. https://github.blog/2019-10-09-github-and-us-government-developers/ https://github.blog/2019-10-09-github-and-us-government-deve...
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- adventured 6y ago> Microsoft's ownership is a kiss of death. Strategically the only thing that matters is that TikTok is removed from foreign ownership and that that weak spot in US Internet dominance is removed, so the US can resume global hegemony over platforms (outside of China). Microsoft generates enough cash every year to safely buy a TikTok annually. The US Government is probably throwing Microsoft a wink on this one. Despite generating $53 billion pear year in operating income and still having a desktop monopoly, Microsoft was excluded from the recent government grilling. Maybe Microsoft will get a nice Azure contract in return. In a year or a few, Microsoft IPOs TikTok or works with private equity to shift its ownership and then Microsoft washes their hands of it, taking a small bath in the process (if they can pull an IPO fast enough, given this market, maybe even making some money on the deal). Sometimes you gotta do a favor for Uncle Sam.
- quicklime 6y agoSCP QDOS? :)
- nickthegreek 6y agoDisagree, this would give MS a strong foothold in social media that the next generation is flocking too.
- riffic 6y agoIf you haven't noticed, the pendulum is swinging towards decentralized, distributed computing systems. This has happened previously in history (mainframe -> PC, back to Cloud Computing, and now to edge/IoT). If you want to "skate where the puck is going" you would be paying attention to the open web standards space.
- walterbell 6y agoAny standards in particular?
- astlouis44 6y agoAre you referring to WASM/WebGPU when you say open standards? Personally think it's going to revolutionize how software is delivered.
- kgwxd 6y agoMinecraft seems to have worked out ok so far.
- haram_masala 6y agoNonsense. Skype has cornered the market in prank calling. Now they just need to monetize it.