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Microsoft suffers from bad memories of dismissing the importance of internet, then missing the boat (a failing 3-4 times) on personal music players and music/vi
by surfingdino 2y ago
Microsoft suffers from bad memories of dismissing the importance of internet, then missing the boat (a failing 3-4 times) on personal music players and music/video streaming, followed by failing to capture any meaningful smartphone or tablet market share, and still playing catch up in the cloud computing space. They went all in on AI, because they want to own the next platform that others will build on top of. Their problem is simple, AI is not the next platform to build on top of. It is not the next internet, not the next operating system, it is a research project with way too much funding.
- IshKebab 2y agoAI is way beyond a research project at this point, and the level of funding doesn't seem totally unreasonable given its potential. But I do agree it isn't a "platform".
- pjmlp 2y agoAdditionally, they messed up so much the WinRT/UWP/WinUI developer experience, that most of us that advocated for the technology, feel betrayed and aren't going to advocate for anything else, other than regular .NET and the pre-Windows 8 desktop technologies.