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Their 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 a
by atomicnumber3 3y ago
Their 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.