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Well it's in the best interests of VCs to say that Microsoft is dead. Peter Thiel would also say the same thing. Especially since Microsoft is in a relatively v
by curiousDog 12y ago
Well it's in the best interests of VCs to say that Microsoft is dead. Peter Thiel would also say the same thing. Especially since Microsoft is in a relatively vulnerable position (i.e no clear monopoly/hard to replicate product like Google in Search or Apple in Hardware). They'd rather have investors invest in the shiny new equivalents their start-ups are coming up with.
- cwyers 12y agoNo clear monopoly? Microsoft? Huh?
- ygra 12y agoPerhaps they assume that the desktop computers are deader than they actually are.
- cwyers 12y agoIf you look at the data, Google has roughly 70% of the search market, and Microsoft (if you include Yahoo, which uses Bing to provide search results) has about 30%. http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-sees-big-1-6-percent-monthly-search-gain-new-comscore-data-213206 http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-sees-big-1-6-percent-month... iOS isn't even the market share leader among smartphones: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2866441/iphone-6-boosts-ios-market-share-android-slips.html http://www.computerworld.com/article/2866441/iphone-6-boosts... Meanwhile Microsoft Windows has over 90% of the desktop operating system market share: http://netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0 http://netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx... And 95% of the market share in productivity software (so Office): http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2013/01/09/an-overview-why-microsofts-worth-42/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2013/01/09/an-... Yet Microsoft can't compete with Apple and Google, because they have a clear monopoly when Microsoft doesn't? It's crazy talk.