Regardless of what the financial markets value them at, their resources are proportional to profits, not market cap.

That aside, they also have lots of products and teams and some have more budget and resources than others.

Saving some memory usage in teams for more than double the development costs, is probably an unattractive position for that team. It also makes it hard to keep features consistent across platforms (as it is, teams struggles with that!)

Apparently they favour fucking it up several times.

The market cap doesn't tell you anything about the available resources a company has.

For example... Gamestop's market cap did this recently - https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GME/gamestop/marke... - the company doesn't suddenly have more money to spend on projects.

Not a great example since they sold over a billion worth of stock. They do actually have more money now.

Microsoft generates more money than they know what to do with so they return large amounts in dividends and probably stock buybacks (I haven't checked for MSFT specifically, but it's all the rage these days.)

That's essentially the opposite of what GME did.

MSFT dividend yield is nothing to write home about. Less than 1% per year at the moment.

That's mostly because of the stock run-up, I recall it was around 3% late last year.

Balance-sheet aggregation != perfect execution consistency.

- DOS 4.0

- Microsoft Bob

- Windows ME

- Windows Vista

- JScript

- MSJVM

- Zune

- Eliminating all/most easter eggs

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2612971/microsoft-s-13-wor...

You can make many, many mistakes as a giant company, so long as they're not fatal. ;-)

Zune was good.

“Plays for sure” Oops, doesn’t play at all.