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by nebula
3315 days ago
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The point when it became clear to me that Microsoft had lost their way was when they decided to get into the search business. [This was PG's view in the article] In retrospect, this seems to be a wrong conclusion. I know Bing is far far away from Google; But I think that Bing investment was well worth it for Microsoft.
If you have followed Build 2017 conference, it is obvious how Microsoft is leveraging AI/ML in several of their products; and of course, they have a good offering of cognitive service cloud APIs.
Without their heavy investment in Bing, Microsoft perhaps would have found it hard to make such quick jump onto the AI/ML bandwagon. As a side note, is Microsoft still considered a company on its way to oblivion? I personally think they reinvented themselves in the new era. Am I mistaken in my view? |
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You are not mistaken but back in 2012 when the article was written it was pretty common to bash Microsoft.
In fact, PG had written an older essay with a click-bait title of "Microsoft is Dead" [1] in 2007. Naturally, many people didn't realize he meant that metaphorically so he wrote a rejoinder titled "Microsoft is Dead: The Cliffs Notes" [2].
[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/cliffsnotes.html