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Microsoft clearly cares about their brand, and cares _a lot_ about making MS Edge a success. They're evidently willing to spend about 10 billion dollars on it o
by rzwitserloot 4y ago
Microsoft clearly cares about their brand, and cares _a lot_ about making MS Edge a success. They're evidently willing to spend about 10 billion dollars on it or so at least (given that their relentless pushing it is risking the EU slapping them down for this at the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars and the risk of that happening is at least 10%. They've done it before, and since then the EU has become more annoyed at such practices, especially from USA companies), that's some easy math.
So, either Taboola's dump truck had more than 10 billion dollars in it, or whomever made this call is an idiot, and the management above them is asleep at the wheel (seems like occam's answer here), or I'm missing something.
- capableweb 4y ago> Microsoft clearly cares about their brand Is that really so obvious? Granted, I just use Windows and no other Microsoft products, but the way they are treating Windows, it does not seem to me that they actually care about their brand, they care about maximizing profits, since they have been introducing more and more ads into their OS.
- dagw 4y agoI don't know. I get the feeling the no one at Microsoft cares about Microsoft. The Office team obviously cares deeply about Office, the Edge team about Edge, the XBox team about the Xbox, the Visual Studio team about Visual Studio and so on, but no one actually cares about Microsoft. No one is making decisions with a holistic view about what is good for the company as a whole. The people who made this decision are only answerable to their team and hitting their targets. They don't care about the effects it has on other parts of the company, and don't have incentives to either.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoRegulators should probably break up Microsoft into many individual companies.
- hbn 4y ago> Microsoft clearly cares about their brand, and cares _a lot_ about making MS Edge a success I think there's a decent number of people working on Edge that want it to be a success, but Microsoft's "put more ads in it department" clearly gets the final say on all decisions.
- Macha 4y agoMicrosoft cares about making edge a success... so it can monetise the users. Hence the ads.