Comment

Comment by orderlyoctopus

The two lessons from this:

- Microsoft got so good and prolific at fighting on their terrain, they overspecialized and forgot how to win anywhere else. Once their opponents stopped stepping on their terrain, MS started losing.

- There's no such thing as the first browser war or the second browser war or the operating system war, and there's no such thing as winners or losers. There's just a never-ending sequence of skirmishes and battles.

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton