Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 days agoOEM licensing isn’t the important part. It’s everything that comes with it. Subscriptions, cloud storage, etc. In my city, a bunch of field workers are being moved from laptops to iPads and phones with the next hardware refresh due to the price jump in laptops. Microsoft won’t have integrated Onedrive and SharePoint and full Office Subscriptions for them.
We already use third-party web apps that aren’t Microsoft (and are mostly hosted by AWS) for a lot of their work, so the only Microsoft product they’ll have is an email address.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
When someone makes a better version of excel that’s cross platform and not solely web based will be the final nail in the Microsoft coffin.
Olap@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Not going to happen unfortunately. There have been so many challengers that have failed to usurp. And the bundling and ecosystem with sharepoint is a) exceptionally useful amd b) anticompetitive. It will take a serious legal case to dislodge excel
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I am honestly surprised it never happened. Ma Bell got broken up in 1984, 6 years later Microsoft office is released, like 5 years later it has a dominant stranglehold. So in like a decade all of our consumer anti-trust power went away? Crazy.