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Re:Steve Ballmer Says Smartphones Broke His Relationship wit... by kyberias on Friday November 04, 2016 @11:41AM (#12873425)
"any technological innovations ... in 80's and 90's"

What? Ok, first, do you think they've ever innovated anything? During the 2000's? What exactly?

Wasn't Windows NT, for example, innovative? The kernel is still powering the Windows operating system.

Internet Explorer was a hugely successful browser dominating the market.

Innovation isn't only creating something from scratch. One can also create innovative products by acquiring the basis for that and developing until it is successful.

Of course they're approach has been to "repeat until success". And they quite often get there.

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Re:Steve Ballmer Says Smartphones Broke His Relationship wit... by Nokinside on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @01:04PM (#12960453)
>Wasn't Windows NT, for example, innovative?

MS hired VAX VMS team to write their second system. It was basic engineering and basically next better version of VMS from scratch.

>Internet Explorer was a hugely successful browser dominating the market.

Only because monopoly power. IE6 delayed new innovations from emerging.

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Re:Steve Ballmer Says Smartphones Broke His Relationship wit... by gizmodo59 on Friday November 04, 2016 @11:47AM (#12873487)
> Internet Explorer was a hugely successful browser dominating the market.

Mostly because it was shipped with Windows and many people wont change it (Non tech). Furthermore, setting aside the anti-trust case, I would rather say they did not capitalize on that start they got IMHO.

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Re:Steve Ballmer Says Smartphones Broke His Relationship wit... by yuhong on Friday November 04, 2016 @12:55PM (#12874010)
Though the Netscape Mariner debacle probably didn't help either.
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