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Doesn't this basically summarize Microsoft's entire business strategy these days? Wait until some piece of tech is firmly entrenched, then move to implement you
by Animus7 15y ago
Doesn't this basically summarize Microsoft's entire business strategy these days? Wait until some piece of tech is firmly entrenched, then move to implement your own instance, more often than not with an enterprise angle. More often than not infuriatingly incompatible unless your entire stack is Microsoft.
This happened with iPhone, cloud hosting, touch/tablet OS's; the list is endless. The only surprising thing is it took them this long to realize that Live Messenger needed to get onboard with Jabber if it's going to survive.
- PakG1 15y agoWasn't that Microsoft's playbook from the very beginning? Industry writers were commenting on that behaviour in the 80s and 90s. Microsoft was always better copying other people's ideas and outcompeting them in the late game.