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10 years is an eternity in this business. Even for Microsoft, who's a dinosaur, it's a full third of the time they've existed.

They have failed to excite me in the face of competition from Google, Apple and Linux, but it's not fair to write them off because of what they did in the 90s.



> it's not fair to write them off because of what they did in the 90s.

They are still doing it. The OOXML standard process loading was just 4 years ago; the UEFI requirements for Win8/ARM have just surfaced.




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