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> For example, Microsoft is famously still doing quite well despite desktop operating systems no longer being the most important game in town. There was a peri
by htrp 4y ago
> For example, Microsoft is famously still doing quite well despite desktop operating systems no longer being the most important game in town.
There was a period about 10-12 years ago when Microsoft was basically left for dead
- int0x2e 4y agoMicrosoft is surprisingly hard to kill. They do a little of everything, and internally act much less like one company and more like a conglomerate. This means there is more politics than needed, but also that the company can survive some pretty massive changes. Microsoft isn't perfect, but it can probably survive even if they lost their top 3 revenue generators, which I'm not sure would be true for Google or Amazon...
- i_love_cookies 4y agofor real, everyone was saying microsoft was the new ibm
- AYBABTME 4y agoI think in a way, MSFT is only doing fine because all the alternatives are doing awful. Google, Apple, Amazon, they're all not exactly at the top of their game. Also MSFT is in a huge dev. marketing campaign phase, so we as dev probably are exposed a lot more to their charm offensive than the rest of the population. Our perspective might be biased.
- peanuty1 4y agoAzure launched 13 years ago in 2010. Before that, Microsoft had Windows and Office.