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Microsoft must be broken up into at least 10 companies. Otherwise, this nation needs to stop pretending any sort of "market forces" dictate our economy or corpo
by RyanAdamas 3y ago
Microsoft must be broken up into at least 10 companies. Otherwise, this nation needs to stop pretending any sort of "market forces" dictate our economy or corporate ability to consolidate.
- jondwillis 3y agoTruly. This pattern is the default mode for how AI is being introduced to most people. That is, vertically. Existing platforms add it as a feature.
- _Parfait_ 3y agoYou have to prove, legally, that it harms the consumer. Good luck with that.
- elforce002 3y agoIt's not that hard: which ms product has no competitors? MS Office. This could be a company all by itself.
- tomjen3 3y agoReally? Gsuite is in the same market. It is even ahead in some areas (the browser version of Word is truely aweful last time I tried).
- gumballindie 3y agoIn this new Guilded Age we live in the opposite will happen. Also expect to be fined for your hate speech against microsoft, it has feelings you know.
- slowmovintarget 3y agoWe must have a legal framework to do this, because while the power is just a vote away, there are no rules for how to measure thresholds. Because of this, it becomes arbitrary, which is not how our legal system should work. The hard part is finding an unbiased economic framework for understanding conglomerates like Microsoft. I suspect that if we built such a thing it would necessarily take down more than the tech giants. The media conglomerates (Disney, Warner, etc...), and more importantly, the financial giants. You have hurricane-strength headwinds to make something like this happen. I'm not saying it shouldn't, I'm saying it's very difficult.