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Why not? Microsoft did. Lots of once-innovative companies lose their edge, stop attracting top talent, and just become body shops shuffling to the graveyard.
by beat 12y ago
Why not? Microsoft did. Lots of once-innovative companies lose their edge, stop attracting top talent, and just become body shops shuffling to the graveyard.
- yuhong 12y agoAOL's fate ended up being worse than even Microsoft, as far as I know.
- learc83 12y agoI don't think Microsoft is a good example here. They're doing some pretty innovative stuff. Open sourcing much of the .NET stack, F#, and Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi. Even at their worst they never really stopped acquiring top talent, and their revenue hasn't stopped growing [1](it's also about 7 times what Facebook's is). [1] http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/FY2002-20131.png http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/FY2002...
- oldmanjay 12y agoI'm not going to address whether or not Microsoft innovates, but open sourcing existing projects is possibly the loosest application of the term I've ever seen