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0 pointsthaumasiotes3mo ago0 comments

But the first example sigmoid10 gave of a company that can't do software was Microsoft.

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Yeah I'm not convinced Microsoft can do software anymore. I think they're a shambling mess of a zombie software company with enough market entropy to keep going for a long time.

more_corn3mo ago

The prosecution presents windows 11 as evidence that Microsoft can’t do software. Actually that’s it, that’s the entirety of the case.

The prosecution rests.

baobun3mo ago

Due to clerical error the frontend updates of GitHub was not part discovery so not allowed as evidence. Still, though.

Eggpants3mo ago

Yeah the fact they had to resort to forking Chrome because they couldn’t engineer a browser folks wanted to use is pretty telling.

lenkite3mo ago

They did engineer a good browser: original Edge with the Chakra JavaScript Engine. It was faster than Google Chrome and had some unique features: a world-best, butter-smooth and customizable epub reader. I loved it for reading - it beat commercial epub readers - and then Nadella took over and said Microsoft is getting rid of it and Edge will move to Chromium and Microsoft will also get rid of Windows phone. Modern Microsoft will be Cloud/AI and Ads. That was so depressing.

hollerith3mo ago

I don't think that tells us anything.

Maintaining a web browser requires about 1000 full-time developers (about the size of the Chrome team at Google) i.e., about $400 million a year.

Why would Microsoft incur that cost when Chromium is available under a license that allows Microsoft to do whatever it wants with it?

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