> Despite its scale, Microsoft is one of the most overlooked companies in tech.
What's the standard of overlookness? I never for a moment feel MSFT was overlooked, by any measure of sampling.
> It is not a beloved consumer brand like Apple, Facebook, Amazon, or Google.
In 90s, MSFT used to be thought as one of the 2 pillars of THE PC industry as a whole. And MSFT was commonly thought to be the more powerful one of the wintel dual.
MSFT lost its glamour when the anti monopoly suit hit them hard.
Then very loosely speaking MSFT lost a lot of battle in the 2010s.
But still, MSFT has a much longer history than FB and Google. Theese 3 enjoyed probably similar scale of love from their users. And FB is the one with the least amount of love in their hayday.
Apple is a different story. They always have a particularly cult like following that skewed every commentators' perspective.
> It was not a venture capital success story: Microsoft was too profitable to raise real VC money, so the founders owned 70% at IPO.
What? BC has been much smaller in the days of MSFT. You should say BC was not favored not MSFT was not relevant to VC. It was after MSFT created the PC market, and enabled Internet, then that the entrapeneriship becomes much cheaper through online economy. Then the VC becomes a central force of the high tech industry.
You are asking the father to be judged by its grandson for greatness...
> It is the oldest of FAMGA, hidden away in a different state.
What?... Why not included HP, DEC, Fairchild then... Of course some is old some is young. The fact that MSFT lives for so long is a symbol of success itself...
Just from the beginning:
> Despite its scale, Microsoft is one of the most overlooked companies in tech.
What's the standard of overlookness? I never for a moment feel MSFT was overlooked, by any measure of sampling.
> It is not a beloved consumer brand like Apple, Facebook, Amazon, or Google.
In 90s, MSFT used to be thought as one of the 2 pillars of THE PC industry as a whole. And MSFT was commonly thought to be the more powerful one of the wintel dual.
MSFT lost its glamour when the anti monopoly suit hit them hard.
Then very loosely speaking MSFT lost a lot of battle in the 2010s.
But still, MSFT has a much longer history than FB and Google. Theese 3 enjoyed probably similar scale of love from their users. And FB is the one with the least amount of love in their hayday.
Apple is a different story. They always have a particularly cult like following that skewed every commentators' perspective.
> It was not a venture capital success story: Microsoft was too profitable to raise real VC money, so the founders owned 70% at IPO.
What? BC has been much smaller in the days of MSFT. You should say BC was not favored not MSFT was not relevant to VC. It was after MSFT created the PC market, and enabled Internet, then that the entrapeneriship becomes much cheaper through online economy. Then the VC becomes a central force of the high tech industry.
You are asking the father to be judged by its grandson for greatness...
> It is the oldest of FAMGA, hidden away in a different state.
What?... Why not included HP, DEC, Fairchild then... Of course some is old some is young. The fact that MSFT lives for so long is a symbol of success itself...
Thus mumbling of words are unbearable...