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When was the last time Microsoft was significantly better than the competition (on the tech side) ? To my knowledge, they always were between average and terri
by JackSlateur 2y ago
When was the last time Microsoft was significantly better than the competition (on the tech side) ?
To my knowledge, they always were between average and terrible, compared to their competitors
- gchamonlive 2y agoIt seems like they were just more average back then.
- nickstinemates 2y agoMay we all aspire to be average and terrible and also the most valuable company in the world.
- lucianbr 2y agoRobber barons are your ideal? Hopefully not everybodys... This "whatever makes most money is the right thing to do" thinking is bad. We need to do better.
- gchamonlive 2y agoThis notion of value is interesting. It will kill the world while looking very good on the quarterly report.
- hylaride 2y agoThis is mostly immeasurable and unanswerable. They've had lots of good/better tech that's succeeded in the marketplace (Active Directory, DirectX) and hasn't (windows phone 8) for a whole variety of reasons. They have tech that's solid, but more niche, like .NET/C# which is applied more in the enterprise than internet oriented software. The windows NT kernel is a solid piece of engineering compared to other OSes (it was originally designed/developed by Dave Cutler who came from DEC and did VMS and applied/improved a lot of the concepts there), but has often been hindered by shit thrown on top of it. Microsoft has done a lot, both good and bad. But a lot of the reasons they're as successful as they are is for the "bad" stuff, like extreme support for backwards compatibility, getting "good enough" to market while other companies languished in perfectionism or distraction (cough cough apple before 2000).