Mentioning MS in that way doesn’t help your argument. They are doing better than ever before. Who cares about desktop space (which they still have an enormous market share of btw) when you have Azure. I would argue the antitrust settlement actually helped them.
Everyone is basically ignoring them in current “tech-lash” discussions. They got away with a slap on the wrist 20 years ago and are just slightly more careful.
On the contrary, MS is an excellent example of a large company being forced to pivot (to cloud) after their existing business model (desktop software) looked increasingly dead in the water. Year to year earnings showcase how much more reliant MS was on desktop software two decades ago. Changes in technology, user expectations and computing model forced MS to innovate, not regulation, and that’s exactly my point.
Everyone is basically ignoring them in current “tech-lash” discussions. They got away with a slap on the wrist 20 years ago and are just slightly more careful.