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Nadella, Gates, and Ballmer have all admitted to Microsoft’s mobile mistakes.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Outside of Azure, and Business apps they don't really understand any of the other markets they are in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

And the only reason those are successful is because they're just very entrenched in large corporations. They're successful if the users are forced to use their stuff, but nobody loves anything Microsoft makes, so they always fail on the consumer side (Xbox and gaming in general being the exception, I guess).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

nobody loves anything Microsoft makes

Excel is life. Although I do get annoyed about the data limitations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My life would change drastically for the worse without Excel.

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