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Microsoft pushed personal computers to masses and the productivity gains fie society are insane. You really think they don't deserve 50% from every excutable fo

• jachee 5y ago
  This isn't a particularly good analogy. Microsoft didn't build those computers. Microsoft didn't sell those computers. Microsoft didn't ship those computers. They merely licensed their OS to the manufacturers and/or end users. The X Box would be a better analogy, and MS does get a 30% cut there.
• gentleman11 5y ago
  Microsoft didn’t invent the operating system, they just captured the market share with network effects before somebody else did. If it wasn’t them, it would have been apple. If it wasn’t apple, somebody else would have raced into the void with dump trucks of Vic money. All things said, we could have done worse than early days Microsoft, although modern Microsoft is all about advertising and tracking
  • yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
    > Microsoft didn’t invent the operating system Didn't they? QDOS was bought, but 9x and NT were mostly MS with a little bit of IBM AFAIK.
  • 908B64B197 5y ago
    > they just captured the market share with network effects before somebody else did Ever heard of CP/M? That was an improvement over having every manufacturer ship it's own (unmaintained) OS. Microsoft's genius was seeing the value in Software, not just in shipping physical goods. And people believed they were crazy at the time.