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People have been predicting the demise of Microsoft for going on twenty years now. Gets old frankly. They are incredibly diversified. If anything, they themsel
by skc 5y ago
People have been predicting the demise of Microsoft for going on twenty years now. Gets old frankly.
They are incredibly diversified. If anything, they themselves no longer see Windows as the crown jewel, which would explain more than a few HN gripes
- blooalien 5y agoPeople have been predicting "The Year of the Linux Desktop" forever now, too. Truth is, for some that'll never happen, and for others (like me) it happened many years ago.
- mavhc 5y agoNo one cares about the desktop any more, and linux won the mobile race, in some fashion.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoLinux did not win the mobile race in any sense that matters.
- mavhc 5y agoShould have said Is it the year of GNU/Linux on the desktop, d'oh
- oblio 5y agoMicrosoft is more diversified than any of the other big tech companies, except for Amazon. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-big-tech-makes-their-billions-2020/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-big-tech-makes-their-bi... The previous poster is probably 10+ years behind the news.