• Chunk@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    1 year ago

    Windows OS is one of the biggest misses in the company’s history. The money lost on Zune pales in comparison to the missed opportunities of making NT the go-to dev platform.

    People like Mac OS better. The most popular user OS in the world is Android. Cloud is Linux. Microsoft knows they have to play nice because they are so far behind there’s no point in competing how they used to.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      It’s really fascinating to see this in my lifetime. I thought of Microsoft as this computing giant growing up, and now they’re more of a cloud services company with an office product side business.

      And then there’s this weird desktop thing called Windows with some niche uses in gaming and enterprise, shipping by default on a platform that’s increasingly not relevant to regular users.