alt Hacker NewsYou have to be joking about them missing the internet?
They became nearly irrelevant because of mobile and had to claw their way back. That is not faring well.
They eventually made it out and survived because of cloud and gaming, but it took what many people consider a major transformation of the company.
Don't let your personal bias about AI cloud the way you see the world.
> You have to be joking about them missing the internet?
No, I'm not. Bill gates famously missed it (and/or severely underestimated the need for internet on Windows PCs) in 1994/5.
Microsoft completely missed the internet, and had to play catchup throughout 1995-1998.
> They became nearly irrelevant because of mobile and had to claw their way back. That is not faring well.
That never happened. They were in no danger at any time. The historic stock price charts, if you care to look them up, would show that the mobile threat you think there was did not even put a blip on their stock price and/or their revenue.
I mean, their revenue never even blipped.