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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by scarface74 on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @08:38AM (#21462366)
You don’t call having to use its biggest rivals browser engine and Bing missing out on the web?

As far as mobile, Apple was able to take its much smaller less bloated OS, cut it down to a size that could fit on a device with 128MB of RAM and have for what at the time was a full featured web browser. Did you ever use IE on a Win CE device?

And are you forgetting that Microsoft was the dominant consumer operating platform before mobile? MS didn’t have any choice but to retreat to Enterprise.

So what “bigger technologies” do you see coming out then mobile? The smart phone already has an 80%+ worldwide penetration rate of adults.

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by criley2 on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @04:32PM (#21467608)
>You don’t call having to use its biggest rivals browser engine and Bing missing out on the web?

They run windows at Google HQ and AWS but you don't see anyone saying Google and Amazon "missed out"

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by scarface74 on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @05:28PM (#21468258)
They run Windows because their customers demand it for their VMs. You really think Microsoft spent 24 years fighting the browser wars and liked just giving up and giving control over to Google?
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