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> from this obviously bad take

This is like saying your evaluation of my property, back when it was in bad shape was wrong... because after renovating the entire thing and fixing its issues, I got a different price.

From the linked article:

> Is there some way Microsoft could come back? In principle, yes

So, of course if you manage to change the input, you'll get a different output.

Today's Microsoft (WSL, Edge, Bing, Azure, VSCode, copilot, etc) is so different from 2007 you wouldn't even recognize it as the same company. Just like what Paul Graham has said they needed to change if they were to survive.