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Straightforward antitrust violation. This is exactly what they got in trouble w/ in the 1990's w.r.t. bundling IE w/ Windows. But they know exactly what they

Straightforward antitrust violation. This is exactly what they got in trouble w/ in the 1990's w.r.t. bundling IE w/ Windows. But they know exactly what they are doing. They aren't unaware of the fact that this a violation. There is a lot of complaining on this site about various FAANG members' anticompetitive behavior (some of it uninformed!), but you all need to make room in your hearts for an M in that acronym when you're talking about antitrust issues, because this behavior is anticompetitive.

jbluepolarbear 5y ago
Why isn’t Microsoft counted in the FAANG? Isn’t Microsoft and Apple neck and neck for worlds most valuable companies?
- detaro 5y ago
  because FAANG is originally a stock market term for (at the time) hot tech stocks, and Microsoft was already old and boring.
  - fingerlocks 5y ago
    And ironically, in the last several years MSFT stock has outperformed nearly all of FAANG, the exception being Apple
    - ChuckNorris89 5y ago
      And it's easy to see why. They're dominating nearly everything besides streaming, mobile and social media. Windows, WSL, VS Code, X-Box, Azure, Outlook, Office 365, Teams, etc. It's pretty difficult to be a white collar working adult and not be forced to interact with at least one Microsoft product on a daily basis whether you enjoy it or not. Thier network effect in the corporate world is basically a black hole at this point. We tried at one gig to go all-in on Linux on our laptops but gave up after so many of our customers were using Office, SharePoint and Teams to colaborate and expected us to join in with the same tools. We lost the battle before it even began. Too bad they royally fucked up the last mobile OS attempt many years ago. Ironically, I quite enjoyed the experience. The UX felt really polished and their mobile OS ran so buttery smooth even on HW that Android at the time wouldn't even dream of running.

jbluepolarbear 5y ago

Why isn’t Microsoft counted in the FAANG? Isn’t Microsoft and Apple neck and neck for worlds most valuable companies?

detaro 5y ago
because FAANG is originally a stock market term for (at the time) hot tech stocks, and Microsoft was already old and boring.
- fingerlocks 5y ago
  And ironically, in the last several years MSFT stock has outperformed nearly all of FAANG, the exception being Apple
  - ChuckNorris89 5y ago
    And it's easy to see why. They're dominating nearly everything besides streaming, mobile and social media. Windows, WSL, VS Code, X-Box, Azure, Outlook, Office 365, Teams, etc. It's pretty difficult to be a white collar working adult and not be forced to interact with at least one Microsoft product on a daily basis whether you enjoy it or not. Thier network effect in the corporate world is basically a black hole at this point. We tried at one gig to go all-in on Linux on our laptops but gave up after so many of our customers were using Office, SharePoint and Teams to colaborate and expected us to join in with the same tools. We lost the battle before it even began. Too bad they royally fucked up the last mobile OS attempt many years ago. Ironically, I quite enjoyed the experience. The UX felt really polished and their mobile OS ran so buttery smooth even on HW that Android at the time wouldn't even dream of running.