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Same story as buying a home near Microsoft during their heyday. MS did somewhat alleviate the problem by having a geographically spread-out campus but hour-long
by jimbob45 3y ago
Same story as buying a home near Microsoft during their heyday. MS did somewhat alleviate the problem by having a geographically spread-out campus but hour-long commutes were the norm.
- diggan 3y agoMSFT's stock price is higher than ever and seems Microsoft is everywhere, even on Linux computers nowadays. If today isn't their heyday, when was, and why?
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- atomicnumber3 3y agoTheir sheer dominance of literally all technology is a lot less pronounced now that so much of computing is in the cloud (Linux) and on mobile phones (iOS and android). Huge swathes where Microsoft has terribly little monopoly power or high-margin products. Even Office is eaten into by gsuite and a long tail of solutions like Notion.
- ghaff 3y agoMicrosoft is clearly a very major company, they're very profitable, and their stock has done very well for the past decade or so. But they're also very clearly not the dominant player that was poised to sweep everyone else aside as many saw them as being at one point--in part because open source at that time was sort of a niche thing and cloud computing didn't really exist.
- givemeethekeys 3y agoThe 90's when Apple was almost dead, and Linux wasn't quite a thing. I agree though that now is a great to be at Microsoft, arguably better than the 90's since no one seems to hate them like they did back then.
- ghaff 3y agoYeah, in the 90s, with probably the notable exception of Sun, pretty much every major computer maker was at least planning for an eventuality where Wintel dominated everything. There were alternatives--in the Big Iron space and where other companies like MIPS had windows of success--but Microsoft was very dominant in business computing and of course rules the mainstream desktop.
- unethical_ban 3y agoA smaller piece of a much, much bigger pie.