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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by paxys on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:49PM (#23432287)
And yet the Microsoft of today is faster and stronger as a company than it was during the antitrust days. Maybe it wasn't such a bad thing for them.
Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by redisman on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:52PM (#23432336)
Plus a lot more diversified. Not sure if it's all a good thing as the huge companies are making land grabs everywhere. Github, Skype, Linkedin Xbox, Nokia phones unit, VSCode, basically all my favorite medium-sized game companies (inxile, double fine, obsidian). Feels like their presence is a lot more oppressive than the Windows 95 and IE days we were all freaked out about.
Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by novok on Friday June 05, 2020 @04:23PM (#23433532)
isn't vscode a new product made by microsoft in house?
Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by redisman on Friday June 05, 2020 @04:47PM (#23433767)
Yes I guess I switched from what they bought to what I use daily in the middle
Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by sz4kerto on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:54PM (#23432354)
The industry as a whole has grown enormously. Microsoft is as big as it was, but relatively speaking it's not even remotely as strong. Microsoft used to have the power of FAANG together, it was so ahead of everyone else in terms of (pricing) power. Nobody was a threat to them before the antitrust suit.
Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by ThrowawayB7 on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:56PM (#23432386)
That only came about because a lot of the old guard, like Sinofsky, Myerson, Turner, etc., left the company or were pushed out in the early '10s. I don't foresee a similar revitalization of leadership happening at Google anytime soon.