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CamperBob2today at 1:30 AM2 repliesview on HN

The same reason why Microsoft was able to kick everybody else out of the PC operating system and office software sectors: everybody else was even less competent.


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robocattoday at 3:08 AM

I always felt that Microsoft's winning move was to be consistently mediocre. They just waited until competitors screwed up. Now they're following in IBMs or Intel's footsteps - concentrating everything on the enterprise market and slowly dying.

mhh__today at 1:36 AM

Bill Gates was also pretty good