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Re:Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project V... by nailer on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @05:45AM (#21058110)
Microsoft isn't that powerful either. Windows is a small percentage of computing and Office simply isn't a big deal. They're also a pretty good company now.
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Re:Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project V... by randall on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @11:50AM (#21061439)
“Microsoft. Microsoft had a market capitalization of US$ 904.86 billion for the first quarter of 2019, ranking as the largest company in the world. ...”

and that’s just the average. Today they’re a trillion dollar company. That’s 2x Facebook.

And yeah, ibm is included because it makes the mneumonic better.

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Re:Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project V... by nailer on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @04:07PM (#21064072)
Yep Microsoft are certainty valuable, they're just not influential. Like IBM or Oracle. Not like Apple, Google or Facebook.
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