[bediger4000]

Not only is Microsoft not dead, they're almost never included in the "Big Tech" that gets shouted about and cursed. Which is weird, Microsoft makes an OS that has a 90+% desktop share, no real competitors, and pretty much extract money at will for its software.

[lotsofpulp]

Microsoft has long been included, they just didn’t happen to be in the catchy FAANG acronym that a tv show used for a set of companies with increasing stock prices all the way back in 2013.

Netflix dropped out of that a long time ago, but FAANG is still sometimes used since it is catchier than MAMAA or whatever a 7 letter acronym would be if including Nvidia and Tesla.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech

[cb321]

How about MANTFANG (for microsoft, apple, nvidia, tesla, facebook, amazon, netflix, google)? If you drop Tesla, you can have "MANFANG" which fits 2025 Hollywood's year of the werewolf or if you reorder them you could have "FATMANNG", a bit like the infamous FatMan and Little Boy. Or "GFATMANN". If you go by Google's "Alphabet" you could do "MANTAFAN". And probably many others WAY catchier AND slightly more complete than "FAANG", IMO.

[luma]

I think it's largely because SV tech bros have almost zero intersection with enterprise compute as it's used in the rest of the world. PG sees nothing but Apple laptops around him, because everyone holding them has never worked for a diesel engine manufacturer in Michigan or a wood panel plant in North Carolina.

The disconnect between SV and the rest of the world is as wide today as it has ever been.