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Large tech companies are nothing like banks and have no mechanism to immediately collapse. In fact, the fact that their collapse would imperil the US economy i

Large tech companies are nothing like banks and have no mechanism to immediately collapse. In fact, the fact that their collapse would imperil the US economy is a 100% guarantee that they won't collapse because it means people are dependent on buying their products. And if you did break them up, it wouldn't solve the problem at all. Whatever company is in charge of Windows is still going to be critical no matter the size. It depends on the importance of the software product in the tech industry, not the size of the company like it does in banking.

vxNsr 4y ago
The difference is that if Windows corp isn’t part of the O365 corp then they’re both forced to work with competitors instead of forcing you into their walled garden. How nice would it be if all the features that you get from the windows/O365/Onedrive synergy were available to any cloud competitor? So I could pair word/excel sync with my own self-hosted cloud. I could back up all my files using the native tools to any cloud provider. That’s the sort of benefit you could theoretically have by breaking up Microsoft.