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To not include Microsoft when you say 'big tech' is blinkered. They are currently the 2nd biggest company in the world by market cap. Around double the size of
by SimonPStevens 6y ago
To not include Microsoft when you say 'big tech' is blinkered.
They are currently the 2nd biggest company in the world by market cap. Around double the size of Facebook.
They might not be cool or trendy in tech circles anymore, but they are without a doubt a big tech company.
Their OS runs over 70% of desktops [1] and their office suite has over 80% of the market share [2]. And that's just the sectors they completely dominate in before we even talk about other sectors that they are involved in with major competitive products. Xbox, Surface, Azure, SQL server, Power BI, Windows Server, .net, Visual Studio, BizTalk, are all huge popular widely used tech products. And I'm sure there's more that I don't know.
And then add GitHub and LinkedIn if you want to count recent acquisitions that still seem to operate mostly independently at the moment.
1 - https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
2 - https://www.ciodive.com/news/Google-Microsoft-Office-collaboration/571740/ https://www.ciodive.com/news/Google-Microsoft-Office-collabo...