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0 pointsQuinzel1y ago0 comments

I actually don’t understand how Microsoft is still such a big player when its programs are so clunky and awful generally… And yet - my go to for writing anything is still Word -.-

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xxs1y ago

by buying out the completion, e.g. skype. For the most part the triple "E" has not altered all that much with the time.

Alternative venues include the default installation of windows to (almost) every laptop in existence.

Eudaimion1y ago

Do you have any recent examples? Skype acquisition was more than a decade ago ( during the Ballmar era).

xxs1y ago

video game industry - zenimax, activision blizzard

AI/speech recognition - nuance communications (the stuff behind apple's siri)

side note: does linkedIn count?

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sunaookami1y ago

Not an acquisition per se but: OpenAI

ravst3s1y ago

you identified it - Windows & Office.

These two products dominate every non-technical industry. I think MSFT makes mediocre software. But as long as those two gravy trains exist, they'll never lose.

snoopsnopp1y ago

Because capitalism is a lie, political power decides which tech companies get big, not innovation.

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xxs1y ago

by buying out the completion, e.g. skype. For the most part the triple "E" has not altered all that much with the time.

Alternative venues include the default installation of windows to (almost) every laptop in existence.

Eudaimion1y ago

Do you have any recent examples? Skype acquisition was more than a decade ago ( during the Ballmar era).

xxs1y ago

video game industry - zenimax, activision blizzard

AI/speech recognition - nuance communications (the stuff behind apple's siri)

side note: does linkedIn count?

1 more reply

sunaookami1y ago

Not an acquisition per se but: OpenAI

ravst3s1y ago

you identified it - Windows & Office.

These two products dominate every non-technical industry. I think MSFT makes mediocre software. But as long as those two gravy trains exist, they'll never lose.

snoopsnopp1y ago

Because capitalism is a lie, political power decides which tech companies get big, not innovation.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse