M"$"? 1999 called, they want their edginess back...

webmaven · on Nov 12, 2020

> M"$"? 1999 called, they want their edginess back...

You realize that we're potentially just one leadership change away from returning to the 'bad old days', right?

oblio · on Nov 12, 2020

You're missing the big picture. In 1999, Microsoft's revenue was at least 10x that of the closest competitor.

It controlled the client (desktop) and was working on controlling the server, too.

Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc didn't exist. Amazon was much smaller and in a different niche. Apple was trying to not keel over in 2 months.

We're not a leadership change away from anything. The world has changed.

webmaven · on Nov 16, 2020

> We're not a leadership change away from anything. The world has changed.

The world has changed, but I didn't mean "the bad old days when Microsoft had a stranglehold over the industry" but just "the bad old days of an evil Microsoft". Their market power isn't relevant to whether they are a bad actor, only to how large their impact is as a bad actor.