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AWS is just playing copycat with msft. They rarely have any good original ideas. Other than IaaS and online retail.

reducesuffering 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

And you think MSFT isn't 95% copycat? Teams is Slack clone. Azure is AWS clone. SurfaceBook (remember those?) Macbook clone. Edge is Chrome clone. Bing is Google clone. Even VSCode was an Atom/Electron fork and Windows Subsystem for Linux...

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mkl 3 days ago | parent [-]

Surface Books are nothing like Macbooks - Macbooks don't have a touch screen, pen support, or reversible screen tablet mode, and the whole structure is completely different. Surface Pro, Surface Book, and Surface Laptop Studio are some of the most original laptop form factors I've seen.

	▲	rwalle 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly. Too bad Microsoft only cares about enterprise customers and never made the Surface line attractive to regular consumers. They could have been very interesting and competitive alternatives to MacBooks.

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deanCommie 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What's Microsoft's Bedrock?

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pdabbadabba 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> They rarely have any good original ideas. Other than IaaS and online retail.

Lol. Is that all?? If you have to have only two good original ideas, you could do a lot worse.