Why Microsoft Has Willingly Given Up On Trying To Innovate

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  @herfamusic · 3 years ago

  Windows Phone was an incredible OS that was buttery smooth and new looking that needed very low specs to run smoothly. What killed it was the lack of apps because it launched late and people were already divided between android and iOS.

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  @AlexADumbDumb · 3 years ago

  I had a Windows phone and actually thought it had a very well designed UI, it worked great, was snappy and intuitive.  I also had a Zune, which was technically far superior to the iPods available at the time of launch.  In both cases they seemed to lose because of bad marketing and bad business strategy rather than because of a lack of innovation or bad product design.

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  @danielvasquez3758 · 3 years ago

  At this point, they’re just settling on name brand recognition!! Everyone using word, excel, outlook, etc. No need to do anything else when you’ve got those!!

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  @HemstitchedIrony · 3 years ago

  Google seems to do acquisitions to acquire teams and competition when they're still small, Microsoft does really big acquisitions and seemingly let's these companies continue doing what works

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  @okman9684 · 3 years ago

  You are missing the big picture here. Even though microsoft is very quiet at the consumer side (can change after Ai stuff because chat got) but their growth in the corporate department is astounding. <br>It&apos;s like asking where is Oracle now or where is IBM now. They are not active at the consumer side but in the corporate and office department they have a single handed monopoly. Not every big company has to be a household name, there will be some winning in the shadows

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• HL

  @hlo695 · 3 years ago

  You forgot Azure. It’s their version of AWS and it actually has good portion of the market share. It’s no innovation sure, but they have a good source of revenue there

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• LO

  @LoneWolf-py7ps · 3 years ago

  I can&apos;t completely say that Microsoft has stopped innovating . They are experimenting with Bing , laptop and other stuff . But i must admit but none of the inventions have been groundbreaking or mass consumed like word or windows . I think Microsoft is trying to preserve that all windows feel and trying to improve the user experience perspective. Although i think windows 10 &gt; windows 11 . May be that is my personal opinion.

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• IN

  @int3rn-3 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Buying the companies to remain on top in a correct way does and will work

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• AB

  @abhishekbu1087 · 3 years ago

  They understood that instead of creating a product to compete with other products there are making their services available on already popular platforms. Its actually genius. They used chromium in edge browser with bing and ChatGPT integration and making it better than chrome. Xbox is now expanding to PC, mobile and handhelds. Now they are integrating chatgpt to all their development products, office and cloud which aill make it a monopoly over other products

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  @loreenl5781 · 3 years ago

  I loved my Windows phone. Way better than my iPhone. I was so disappointed it didn’t take off. Didn’t have a strategy to get developers to make enough apps.

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  @GreaterJan · 3 years ago

  They built Azure, a huge profit driver.

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  @unifairsum21 · 3 years ago

  I actually loved the windows phone when I had it it was super fast even on a budget version and the homescreen setup with the little windows every it was great I wish they never killed it but they were too late to the party so developers were never really interested in coding for the platform when they already have to for Android and Apple

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