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What sector does Microsoft dominate these days? They actually are pretty good at competing. Major units at Microsoft: OS. This one is old, gone through anti t
by ohashi 5y ago
What sector does Microsoft dominate these days? They actually are pretty good at competing.
Major units at Microsoft:
OS. This one is old, gone through anti trust stuff already. There's Mac / Linux.
Cloud. Azure is competing against AWS, GCP, everyone else.
Gaming. Xbox has Sony and Nintendo.
The strongest monopoly argument is still operating system/office, but even that Google is eroding away at office. The server market is dominated by *nix.
Microsoft do have enormous stockpiles of cash and are acquiring things and behaving similarly to the others. But their major monopoly has already been tested and their power is waning according to market share (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...).
- lotsofpulp 5y ago> But their major monopoly has already been tested and their power is waning according to market share (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...). I don’t see their power waning. Their control of Office and Windows lets them bundle things like Teams and OneDrive, which puts pressure on smaller companies like Slack (sold to Salesforce) and Dropbox, who have a harder time selling when MS is throwing in OneDrive for free if you’re already buying Windows/Office/Exchange/Azure/etc.
- quickthrowman 5y agoLet’s all shed a tear for the billionaire founders of slack and dropbox, if it wasn’t for Microsoft they’d have 10 billion each instead of 1-2 billion. Poor Drew, poor Stewart, the world has been cruel and unforgiving to them. Have you considered that perhaps file storage and chat rooms aren’t innovative ideas that deserve massive multi-billion dollar rewards?
- lotsofpulp 5y ago> Have you considered that perhaps file storage and chat rooms aren’t innovative ideas that deserve massive multi-billion dollar rewards? I made no claim regarding what ideas deserve what. Simply that Microsoft is not losing power, by showing the kind of effects it can have on other businesses.
- the-dude 5y agoWell, so what anti-trust measures were taken then? And the server market is not dominated by *nix. Public facing websites, yes. Corps are full of Windows Server. Filled to the brim.
- capableweb 5y agoYou're forgetting a entire ecosystem: developers. Microsoft owns NPM Inc, GitHub and Linkedin, all but Linkedin focused on developers and both GitHub and NPM owns their respective markets (GitHub for source code management and NPM Inc for JavaScript distribution)
- zepto 5y ago> OS. This one is old, gone through anti trust stuff already. There's Mac / Linux. Ok but by that argument, Apple wouldn’t be considered dominant either.