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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do you think 24 months is a long enough time to be confident about how a company will behave over the next decade?

Especially wheb Moore's Law is dead and they need to take ever more extreme measures to make those numbers go up.

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

Why would Moore's law matter here for an operating system? Also both are far older than 24 months.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Microsoft is a tech company, so if tech has hit a way they're going to have to find new ways of monetization to keep the numbers going up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Their money doesn't really come from selling hardware though. I mean they sell a bit but it's a pretty small portion of their business