Microsoft Ends Tradition of Naming Competitors in Regulatory Filings (cnbc.com) 15
Microsoft has abandoned a decades-long tradition of calling out the names of its rivals in regulatory documents. From a report: When the 50-year-old technology company released its annual report Wednesday, the 101-page document contained zero references to longtime foes Apple and IBM.
Nor did it mention privately held challengers such as Anthropic or Databricks. Last year's Microsoft annual report officially designated over 25 companies as competitors. The names of Microsoft's enemies have appeared in its annual reports at least since 1994.
Nor did it mention privately held challengers such as Anthropic or Databricks. Last year's Microsoft annual report officially designated over 25 companies as competitors. The names of Microsoft's enemies have appeared in its annual reports at least since 1994.
Competitors, or to make it clickbait... (Score:2)
potato... potato, I guess.
Go with the zeitgeist (Score:2, Funny)
Enemies of Carlotta (Score:2)
EoC. Guess the CLEANING WOMAN purged them.
If I read that right... (Score:2)
They were outcompeted and are giving up. They're in the process of folding up shop, and liquidating everything, even though they just laid off thousands to push their market cap to four trillion dollar mark.
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They were outcompeted and are giving up. They're in the process of folding up shop, and liquidating everything, even though they just laid off thousands to push their market cap to four trillion dollar mark.
You forgot to wedge in something about Linux completely destroying them, since it's managed to almost eek out 5% market share.
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it's managed to almost eek out 5% market share.
"eke" - "eek!" is for the Scooby gang.
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Right! They're having such a tough time, they just became the second company to reach a $4 trillion valuation, second only to NVidia. Pretty rough indeed.
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More like, they're so confident in themselves, and they're so entrenched in the markets they care about, that they are no longer concerned with the competition.
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More like, in 1994 they were being sued for being a monopoly.
It seems useful to mention your competition when the government is suing you for being a monopoly.
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Good point, they're no longer as worried about being sued by the government. The monopoly part hasn't changed, however.
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And what do they have a monopoly on?
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Let define monopoly first.
For the purposes of antitrust law, a "monopoly" or "trust" is a company that dominates a market sufficiently to be able to stifle competition.
So, Microsoft still has an effective monopoly or duopoly on:
- Business desktop operating systems (Windows). Others exist, but not in sufficient numbers to really call it "competition." https://gs.statcounter.com/os-... [statcounter.com]
- Office productivity (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). In this, Microsoft has an effective duopoly with Google. https://electroiq.co [electroiq.com]
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They lost browsers completely
They lost server operating systems
They are a distant second in cloud
Business desktop is not really a growth area.
There's a pretty vibrant OS marketplace across all devices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
A duopoly is by definition not a monopoly.
And they are hardly preventing other entrants into the office productivity marketplace.
And it's likely best for all of us if there is standardization in office productivity suites, especially when competition is keeping the prices reas
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Monopolies don't have to be forever. In fact, they normally are not. Microsoft did lose some of its monopolies. That does not dispute my points.
A monopoly doesn't have to be a growth area, nor does it have to be universal. The fact that many OSes exist, does not negate the fact that Microsoft has a virtual monopoly on desktop OSes in the business world.
You're right, a duopoly isn't a monopoly, but if the duopoly engages in anticompetitive practices, like price fixing, they are subject to antitrust action.
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