A number of very striking things in this article (a couple of months old) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/02/google-microsoft-pact-antitrust-surveillance-capitalism …
The headline is Google and Microsoft putting aside differences to fend off "democratic oversight", which if true is an exciting development
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Deeper point is that Microsoft's past dominance rested on State-reliant Intellectual Property. What Google has is deeper and less contingent
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Even Microsoft today have more real assets-data and engineering-than they had in the 90s, though their copyrights are not now so valuable.
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