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Microsoft is adopting the "Services, not devices" (or OSes) strategy envisaged two years ago (http://stratechery.com/2013/services-not-devices/).

Under Ballmer, Microsoft had a brief identity crisis, trying to be a vertically integrated company like Apple. It is clear that Satya Nadella is taking Microsoft the other way to become a horizontally-integrated company like Google (http://stratechery.com/2013/understanding-google/)by open-sourcing .Net platform, to support competing platforms like Linux, releasing Office and Outlook on all mobile platforms (Windows, iOS, Android), focusing on cloud services, and deprioritizing Windows.

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Sorry for the typo in the link in the comment above. Too late to edit it. Here's the link :

http://stratechery.com/2013/understanding-google/

>>like Google

But in an ironic way!

Both companies are the foundations upon which the digital age sits, everybody runs Windows/Office and everybody uses Google search. MS and Google can do whatever the heck they want and fail often without consequence.

For "relatively small" values of "fail" .. like everyone else. It's just that "relatively small" for Google is still pretty huge in absolute numbers.

I bet Google too can't fail in crucial/major ways like failing keeping google.com online..

"...everybody runs Windows/Office and everybody uses Google search..."

Several years ago you could add "...and everybody uses an iPhone...". Well, not anymore.

I disagree, even if they sell a lot. The iPhone was far from common because of its high price.

This was actually on Darging Fireball just the other day,

> It’s true that Samsung passed Apple in smartphone market share years ago, but “the crown” was never Apple’s to cede. In the years prior to Samsung’s rise in 2010, Nokia led the industry, by far, in smartphone market share. RIM, too, was ahead of Apple until 2010.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/01/31/chmieliewski-sma...

Each of those "everybody" should have a huge asterisks next to them.

everybody*

* not everybody

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