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Your answer, and GP's reference to Debian, is highlighting the misunderstanding very precisely: Microsoft is not just an operating system vendor. If they stoppe
by 9dev 1y ago
Your answer, and GP's reference to Debian, is highlighting the misunderstanding very precisely: Microsoft is not just an operating system vendor. If they stopped making Windows tomorrow, Microsoft would still exist and do well economically, because it's a hydra with a thousand heads.
Hence my point: The classical concept of "displacement" doesn't apply to corporations at that scale anymore.
- DoesntMatter22 1y agoApple was a relativly small company on the verge of death and came all the way back to surpass Microsoft.
- 9dev 1y agoIndeed it did. Thirty years ago, when the world wasn't utterly dominated by giant tech companies like it is now. Back then Microsoft wasn't capable of buying a country if they so desired; they couldn't hold most world governments hostage, didn't have a product portfolio that covers almost any organisation globally, and didn't have a trove of petabytes (more?) of data to train artificial intelligence with. The world is a different place now, and old rules don't apply anymore.
- DoesntMatter22 1y agoI actually think Microsoft was much more dominant in the 90s. There really weren't solid alternatives to Windows and that was their Cash cow. Now there's tons of alternatives to virtually everything they do