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if acquiring companies means you "are back" what was the value anyways? windows 11 seems like an intentional disaster where basif features are misaing because

if acquiring companies means you "are back" what was the value anyways? windows 11 seems like an intentional disaster where basif features are misaing because microsoft decided you didnt need to them. office seems to be getting worse and is now solely about thay subscription money. and many of microsofts acquisitions just languish slowly - linkedin etc. google can buy conpanies too. meh.

seper8 4y ago
Linkedin user count and revenue have doubled since the acquisition. Hardly languishing
agloeregrets 4y ago
> if acquiring companies means you "are back" what was the value anyways? In fairness, this is true of most major companies in the past 20 years. Apple acquired PA Semi to build their A-Series chips, Google just straight up bought the Android OS. Facebook bought Oculus and renamed itself, Tesla's first 3 years of ASDS was just Mobileye's tech and Tesla overselling it's abilities. Windows 11 being a 'disaster' is a vast overstatement of issues. Consumers widely seem to be fine with it by the numbers, and Microsoft found more ways to generate profits. Sadly they are a business. Adding ChatGPT to windows would wildly change the context of the product and would probably be a massive blow to Apple as ChatGPT is a real "I want that" feature if they market it to wide audiences, at the level of the first laser printer or such. A product where you don't have to know anything about how it works to know that the output is wanted. Linkedin makes money, provides direct information of practices, and allows them to own a quiet corner of the majority of US user's life. Just owning and sitting on it is a great investment, even if you forget the whole LinkedIn learning/Certs thing they are doing to own the education corner.
jwestbury 4y ago
Google can buy companies, but when is the last time they acquired one which excelled after acquisition -- or even just didn't fail after acquisition?

seper8 4y ago

Linkedin user count and revenue have doubled since the acquisition. Hardly languishing

agloeregrets 4y ago

> if acquiring companies means you "are back" what was the value anyways? In fairness, this is true of most major companies in the past 20 years. Apple acquired PA Semi to build their A-Series chips, Google just straight up bought the Android OS. Facebook bought Oculus and renamed itself, Tesla's first 3 years of ASDS was just Mobileye's tech and Tesla overselling it's abilities. Windows 11 being a 'disaster' is a vast overstatement of issues. Consumers widely seem to be fine with it by the numbers, and Microsoft found more ways to generate profits. Sadly they are a business. Adding ChatGPT to windows would wildly change the context of the product and would probably be a massive blow to Apple as ChatGPT is a real "I want that" feature if they market it to wide audiences, at the level of the first laser printer or such. A product where you don't have to know anything about how it works to know that the output is wanted. Linkedin makes money, provides direct information of practices, and allows them to own a quiet corner of the majority of US user's life. Just owning and sitting on it is a great investment, even if you forget the whole LinkedIn learning/Certs thing they are doing to own the education corner.

jwestbury 4y ago

Google can buy companies, but when is the last time they acquired one which excelled after acquisition -- or even just didn't fail after acquisition?