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Comment by jlebar | Hacker News Reader

Boldness aside, this sentence struck me:

> I have confidence in our approach of mobile-first, cloud- > first, and in our primary innovation emphasis on platforms > and productivity and the building of capability in devices > and services as core business drivers.

That's a lot to have confidence in. Is this tangled web of nested lists Microsoft's idea of "focus"? cf. Apple, Google, and Amazon's mission statements.

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Mission statements are usually pure BS. Microsoft is too big to have a single focus. Google has discovered that recently. Apple is still having some focus, but just made a joint PR with IBM about enterprise-y stuff.. so where's the focus?

I'm trying to think of a huge company with a specifc focus and I can't. Perhaps others can weight in here.

I'm quite certain Intel is pretty focused on making faster, smaller and more efficient processors.

They certainly have their fingers in more pies than just processors.

Telecoms companies still seem pretty focused (Cisco, Ericsson). Does Nintendo count as huge?

Cisco is selling servers and "cloud automation" services these days. Ericsson is even selling smart power meters (although it does seem more focused than others).

Nintendo is a good example! 16B mkt cap, all on games.

Did Microsoft declare that their mission statement or is it just a few things a very large organization considers important?

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