• Anivia@feddit.org
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    How can you fumble a quasi-monopoly on desktop operating systems this hard

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      By changing from a company that produces a product for consumers to a company that produces stock value for share holders.

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      Remember this is the same company that had a huge lead and monopoly in the mobile OS market and they fucked that up royally.

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        When was that? I only remember Palm having a lead, and then Blackberry, and then iOS and Android. Windows CE and Windows Mobile were never more than also-rans.

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      MS doesn’t care about home users, hasn’t in a long, long time. Notice how they quit fighting piracy ages ago? The money is in commercial use.

      If you’re running a Windows ecosystem, you can fine tune every aspect. If MS takes any of that tuning away, such as forcing AI, they risk killing the cash cow.