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by modeless 364 days ago
Microsoft has become a lot more friendly to open source under Satya. VSCode, GitHub, and WSL happened during his tenure, and probably wouldn't have happened under Ballmer. Turning the ship from a focus on protecting platform lock-in to meeting developers where they are is a huge accomplishment IMO.
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bitpush 364 days ago
> Microsoft has become a lot more friendly to open source under Satya. True, but that's just few open source projects, albeit influential ones. There are soo many other companies doing influential open source projects.

I dont disagree with anything you said because turning a ship around is hard. But hand-to-heart, what big tech company is truly innovating to the future. Lets look at each company.

Apple - bets are on VR/AR. Apple Car is dead. So it is just Vision Pro

Amazon - No new bets. AWS is printing money, but nothing for the future.

Microsoft - No new bets. They fumbled their early lead in AI.

Google - Gemini, Waymo ..

I think Satya gets a lot more coverage than his peer at Google.

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modeless 364 days ago
Waymo and DeepMind and the TPU program all predate Sundar as CEO.

IMO Google should have invested more in Waymo and scaled sooner. Instead they partnered with traditional automakers and rideshare companies, sought outside investment, and prioritized a prestige launch in SF over expanding as fast as possible in easier markets.

In other areas they utterly wasted huge initial investments in AR/VR and robotics, remain behind in cloud, and Google X has been a parade of boondoggles (excluding Waymo which, again, predates Sundar and even X itself).

You could also argue that they fumbled AI, literally inventing the transformer architecture but failing at building products. Gemini 2.5 Pro is good, but they started out many years ahead and lost their lead.

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DrScientist 363 days ago
Apple - have you used a Macbook recently - their ARM based product line is a big step forward - sure it's not self driving cars - but it's been the biggest jump in standard PC's for quite a while and has required innovation up and down the stack.

Microsoft - No new bets. Really? Their OpenAI deal and integrating that tech into core products?

Amazon - No new bets? It's still trying drone delivery, and it's also got project Kuiper - moving beyond data centres to providing the network

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coliveira 364 days ago
> a lot more friendly to open source under Satya. VSCode, GitHub, and WSL

This is all the 1st step of embrace and extinguish.

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