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?'
Rome fell, MSFT is the opposite. Still collecting taxes at the roads. Yes, there are *also* planes now.
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Microsoft is Venice, not Rome. That was the whole point of the thread. Tech leaders often don't fall in any dramatic way - they slowly fade away as the things that gave them dominance stop mattering. Mainframes are big, but don't matter. WIN32 doesn't matter.
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Even IBM still exists (I think.) But then Rome ( which wasn't built in a day) lasted several centuries. Very few companies have been around that long (breweries maybe?)
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