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xtracto 4 hours ago

Mhmm

Longhorn, Zune, phone, Skype, bungie , among many other failures. I was there, as a kid of the 80s, Microsoft, Windows, Visual Basic, VStudio were EVERYTHING up until around 2003, they just dropped too many balls.

voidfunc 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It was botching Mobile that really did Balmer in and possibly not reacting quite quickly enough to the need for Enterprise-grade Cloud Computing while Amazon was bootstrapping AWS right in Microsoft's back yard.

They got the cloud situation under control but losing Mobile to Apple and Google was a disaster and they're paying for it still.