Comment by codeulike

18 days ago

But still, Microsoft is the most diversified of the big players - they have Windows, Office, Enterprise, Xbox, Azure, Surface - they can survive a mess like their current copilot mess and still generally thrive

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g947o  17 days ago

It has more to do with Microsoft's size and long history. If you are big and have been doing the same thing for many years, naturally you'll want to expand, some of which do succeed.

  • codeulike  17 days ago

    Google and Facebook have failed to do this, so why is that?

    • g947o  17 days ago

      Failed to do what?

      I'm sure you can find good analysis of why specific products failed.

      And both Google/Alphabet and Facebook/Meta have a bunch of side projects that are reasonably successful.

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