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I actually don’t understand how Microsoft is still such a big player when its programs are so clunky and awful generally… And yet - my go to for writing anythi
by Quinzel 3y ago
I actually don’t understand how Microsoft is still such a big player when its programs are so clunky and awful generally…
And yet - my go to for writing anything is still Word -.-
- xxs 3y agoby buying out the completion, e.g. skype. For the most part the triple "E" has not altered all that much with the time. Alternative venues include the default installation of windows to (almost) every laptop in existence.
- Eudaimion 3y agoDo you have any recent examples? Skype acquisition was more than a decade ago ( during the Ballmar era).
- xxs 3y agovideo game industry - zenimax, activision blizzard AI/speech recognition - nuance communications (the stuff behind apple's siri) side note: does linkedIn count?
- xxs 3y agoself reply since it's most relevant to "Teams", and I knew I had missed something. Microsoft did try to buy 'discord' but the price was not right.
- sunaookami 3y agoNot an acquisition per se but: OpenAI
- snoopsnopp 3y agoBecause capitalism is a lie, political power decides which tech companies get big, not innovation.
- ravst3s 3y agoyou identified it - Windows & Office. These two products dominate every non-technical industry. I think MSFT makes mediocre software. But as long as those two gravy trains exist, they'll never lose.