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If Microsoft isn’t winning they quit and give up. they hardly make an effort. If it isn’t easy to win, they don’t want to play at all.

by jquast 3y ago

tw04 3y ago
>If Microsoft isn’t winning they quit and give up. they hardly make an effort. If it isn’t easy to win, they don’t want to play at all. Huh? That's not even remotely accurate. It took Microsoft almost a decade just to hit 2% market share for the surface laptop brand and they have yet to throw in the towel. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/26/microsoft-surface-is-nearly-a-7-billion-business-after-a-decade.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/26/microsoft-surface-is-nearly-... Skype for Business wasn't even a rounding error on their balance sheet or market share and they stuck with that for almost 20 years, eventually rolling it into Teams. https://www.statista.com/statistics/266191/skype-revenue-since-2006/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/266191/skype-revenue-sin...
- seanmcdirmid 3y ago
  > Skype for Business wasn't even a rounding error on their balance sheet or market share and they stuck with that for almost 20 years, eventually rolling it into Teams. Microsoft bought Skype in 2011. You almost made me feel 10 years older for a second.
  - accoil 3y ago
    Still not 20 years, but it's probably better to start at Office Communicator which was from 2007. Skype for Business was a rebrand of a rebrand of that, and apart from name has no relation to Skype.
version_five 3y ago
Bing
mvdtnz 3y ago
This is ridiculous. If anything Microsoft is famous for the opposite. They have the warchest and the patience to grind their way into new markets the slow way. Microsoft's XBox project took many years and many millions of dollars before it finally broke away. Surface tablets and laptops have never been dominant but Microsoft continues to plug away at the market. Bing has been on the market for nearly 15 years and people still only use its name in jest.
- goosedragons 3y ago
  Billions of dollars. The original Xbox lost 4 billion dollars. The 360 had probably the worst consumer electronics failure rate in history and cost billions to fix.
fomine3 3y ago
You mean Google

If Microsoft isn’t winning they quit and give up. they hardly make an effort. If it isn’t easy to win, they don’t want to play at all.

by jquast 3y ago

If Microsoft isn’t winning they quit and give up. they hardly make an effort. If it isn’t easy to win, they don’t want to play at all.

tw04 3y ago

>If Microsoft isn’t winning they quit and give up. they hardly make an effort. If it isn’t easy to win, they don’t want to play at all. Huh? That's not even remotely accurate. It took Microsoft almost a decade just to hit 2% market share for the surface laptop brand and they have yet to throw in the towel. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/26/microsoft-surface-is-nearly-a-7-billion-business-after-a-decade.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/26/microsoft-surface-is-nearly-... Skype for Business wasn't even a rounding error on their balance sheet or market share and they stuck with that for almost 20 years, eventually rolling it into Teams. https://www.statista.com/statistics/266191/skype-revenue-since-2006/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/266191/skype-revenue-sin...

seanmcdirmid 3y ago
> Skype for Business wasn't even a rounding error on their balance sheet or market share and they stuck with that for almost 20 years, eventually rolling it into Teams. Microsoft bought Skype in 2011. You almost made me feel 10 years older for a second.
- accoil 3y ago
  Still not 20 years, but it's probably better to start at Office Communicator which was from 2007. Skype for Business was a rebrand of a rebrand of that, and apart from name has no relation to Skype.

version_five 3y ago

Bing

mvdtnz 3y ago

This is ridiculous. If anything Microsoft is famous for the opposite. They have the warchest and the patience to grind their way into new markets the slow way. Microsoft's XBox project took many years and many millions of dollars before it finally broke away. Surface tablets and laptops have never been dominant but Microsoft continues to plug away at the market. Bing has been on the market for nearly 15 years and people still only use its name in jest.

goosedragons 3y ago
Billions of dollars. The original Xbox lost 4 billion dollars. The 360 had probably the worst consumer electronics failure rate in history and cost billions to fix.

fomine3 3y ago

You mean Google