> On a long enough timeline Microsoft wins this battle. I don't think you appreciate the inertia of market dominance and a massive existing user base. So Curso

> On a long enough timeline Microsoft wins this battle. I don't think you appreciate the inertia of market dominance and a massive existing user base. So Cursor shouldn't even have tried? It is pointless what they have achieved? That's what you're saying? I disagree. Having people who know about your product and have a positive experience with your product can be very sticky. Coca Cola is a famous example. Also look at AWS. Microsoft has many of the benefits you said. Microsoft has scale, many existing relationships with customers, own much of the related software, and many more benefits. Still, AWS has a 31% market share while Azure has only a 20% market share. The gap becomes more narrow each year, but it's still not closed. There is definitely a huge benefit to grabbing market share by having a superior product. Even while you only temporarily have that. You also talk about the economies of scale, but that was my point. Even while Microsoft had all the economies of scale, still Cursor came in and took a large part of the market!