The UK tax system runs on DEC. How much power does DEC have? You need water - does the water company control you? Microsoft has lots of customers. It doesn't set any agenda. It doesn't set standards. People don't worry what it'll do. Startups don't ask 'would Microsoft block us?'
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What chance does a startup have at the mainframe business where IBM dominates? Who cares?! It's not where power sits any more, and it's not where you set the agenda. This is just conflating being big with relevance.
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Who uses mainframes? Banks, airlines etc. and they get rid of them as fast as they can. That is indeed fading the way you describe. MSFT isn’t fading and is in the lives of maybe billions of people everyday. I don’t think it’s analogous to IBM.
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