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Of the many pieces of evidence that Microsoft doesn't get the web, the fact that they suffer under download spikes is one of the least persuasive. For example:
by seldo 18y ago
Of the many pieces of evidence that Microsoft doesn't get the web, the fact that they suffer under download spikes is one of the least persuasive. For example: they think that buying Yahoo, the slowly sinking grandaddy of the web, is somehow going to help them beat Google, even though Google has been wiping the floor with Yahoo for near-on a decade now.
- dmix 18y agoWhy does it have to be about beating Google? Business acquire companies to make money, to get ROI. That comes well before beating a competitor in any investment, unless its clear that they will damage your market share in the future. Consumers will still need desktop OS's for a long time and Google isn't competing with Microsoft on the enterprise front (yet). Live search is only a small portion of Microsoft's revenue, but $44 billion is a significant amount of cash.
- palish 18y agoI'd say a Google OS would have the potential to be pretty damaging to Microsoft's market share.