Letter to the Patent Office From Professor Donald Knuth (1994)

Re:Letter to the Patent Office From Professor Donald Knuth (... by frandroid on Saturday June 28, 2014 @10:06PM (#7960129)

And clearly, with its 15 different billion-dollar a year businesses, Microsoft is at the edge of collapse.

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Re:Letter to the Patent Office From Professor Donald Knuth (... by dredmorbius on Sunday June 29, 2014 @06:15PM (#7962693)

Microsoft ceased being a growth company in the late 1990s / early 2000s. It's now a mature to late-mature tech company.

As pg called it, Microsoft lost its dominance over the tech world by the early-mid 2000s. It was no longer mandatory to have "a Microsoft strategy" (e.g., partner, out-compete, be bought out). Today the pace is set by Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook. In about that order. The Economist's cover from a year or so back highlighted this.

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