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I don’t think comparing IBM to Microsoft is fair or accurate. Microsoft is incredibly relevant and valuable today, many years after ending its antitrust investi

I don’t think comparing IBM to Microsoft is fair or accurate. Microsoft is incredibly relevant and valuable today, many years after ending its antitrust investigation.

blibble 4y ago
20 years ago MS had total dominance over the computer industry (like IBM 20 years before that) now MS aren't even trendsetter, but they are still raking in the cash they are pretty much exactly where IBM was 20 years ago
- summerlight 4y ago
  But ChatGPT is widely considered as an MS product, behind the OpenAI branding. MS under Satya Nadella is a different company from under Steve Balmer; it is setting, or at least trying to set the tech trend.
- Sebb767 4y ago
  Google hasn't been a trendsetter for a few years now, either (unless you count enforcing web standards with Chrome). Also, calling "relevant industry giant making heaps of money" a failure scenario is quite a stretch.
  - blibble 4y ago
    > unless you count enforcing web standards with Chrome yes, being that the web is THE current platform for technology in the same way Win32 was 20 years ago > Also, calling "relevant industry giant making heaps of money" a failure scenario is quite a stretch. I didn't call it a failure scenario IBM's making quite a lot of money still (though trending down and not nearly as much as it used to)