Comment on Microsoft poised to overtake Apple as most valuable company
Untitled4774@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Microsoft is a wonderful success story that being one of the first, and being parasitic, anti-competitive and anti-consumer, all while failing upwards by having some of the buggiest production releases out there on increasingly bloated software, is all that really counts to Wall Street.
And most of the world is too afraid to split off from it because it’s what they know.
I think it’s the exact opposite.
Microsoft was arguably the most powerful company in the world when they were hit with the antitrust lawsuit which absolutely crushed the company. It was never going to destroy Microsoft, but it knocked them way down and things were looking pretty grim.
They cleaned up their act, and are now a far bigger and better company than they ever were in the old days. I think that’s proof that being “parasitic, anti-competitive and anti-consumer” was a bad strategy.
They’ve learned forgotten more lessons than they’ll ever remember.
In the last 10 years we still see these behaviours by way of:
This is just three examples off the top of my head, respectively. We could talk about ads in a paid OS, constant nags to please pretty please use their browser, breaking prior software to integrate “new” versions that don’t add any user improvements but do add significant upgrades to telemetry and usage data, and so on.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It doesn’t help that superior choices to Microsoft product keep getting bought by even worse competitors making Microsoft, once again, look not as as it might. Such events like:
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
It’s almost as if there’s a common driver behind both phenomena.
ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Meh, I think it’s a stretch to blame IBM for the Centos thing. Red Hat did that on their own and themselves deserve whatever criticism is warranted. It’s a wholly owned but independent subsidiary, so not like IBM is in the middle management chain at all.