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This is a good move by Microsoft, but from what I can tell this is only happening because Microsoft no longer has its dominant position. Now that Microsoft has
by icc97 12y ago
This is a good move by Microsoft, but from what I can tell this is only happening because Microsoft no longer has its dominant position.
Now that Microsoft has proper competition from Apple and Google it has to start playing nicer.
It would have been much more benevolent of them if they were still the monopoly power of 20 years ago.
Yay for competition.
- NicoJuicy 12y agoMicrosoft still has an absolute monopoly in desktop OS: http://goo.gl/oBY93k http://goo.gl/oBY93k . And microsoft never had a monopoly on mobile (smartphones + dumbphones) So, what exactly has been changed the last 20 years? In my country (Belgium and my work also sells computers / laptops), practicly all laptops / notebooks / desktops are Windows (we have a sister company which is a computer store)...
- icc97 12y agoThe mobile OS is the big change. So where as Microsoft still has control of the desktop OS, the desktop OS is a much smaller share of the whole OS market. I'm coincidentally in Belgium too :) Any chance you work for CoolBlue then?
- NicoJuicy 12y agoNo, i work for an smb in Belgium andere freelance 2. You work for coolblue perhaps?