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jjrs
20y ago
what are some examples of that?
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jjrs
20y ago
kind of. look at it from the competitor's end. they can't afford to sell at $5, they'd go under. It's like wal-mart putting mom and pop record stores out of business by selling CDs at cost. So MS keeps their software standard at college
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jjrs
20y ago
It's true...what bright, iconoclastic young thinker applies for a job at microsoft these days? It's a stuffy drone corporate gig, and those are the people that'll gravitate to it.
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20y ago
He basically said that all they have is the desktop...but that even that market is getting chewed away too. microsoft can be getting hit by web apps and competing desktops simultaneously...no contradiction there. He just chose to choose
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20y ago
Excellent post. Not only did you nail the growing feeling that Microsoft is gradually becoming irrelevant, but you gave the best explanation as to why that I've seen anywhere. I think another reason is that younger people are more comput