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There is no other earth to sell copies of Office to. Very hard to have growth there.

• rchaud 3y ago
  By that metric, Slack, Jira etc are finished because they don't sell to alien civilizations. The number of employees that need Office 365 accounts is always going to be more than the number that need a Figma, Salesforce or chatGPT account.
  • taylodl 3y ago
    And? All you've pointed out is Wall Street's demand for eternal growth is untenable, as if we didn't already know that.
    • wbl 3y ago
      There's lots of things Microsoft can do to make Windows more valuable and thus charge more for it, and additional services they can sell. They didn't just sell Windows but also a ton of software on top (Encarta, Flight Simulator), added game consoles, made the OS more stable etc. But that doesn't mean a single product line will continue to grow vs. stagnate. You only get to invent the word processor once.
  • Spooky23 3y ago
    From a stock perspective, yes.