Microsoft's roots run deep, and into the hearts of corporations and governments. Linking the hot thing of the moment into that plant, however badly, is what separated Microsoft from IBM. Big Blue's massive and iconic familiarity was the result of a happy accident they did their level best not to repeat, while Microsoft was always and remains happy to play to the demands of the moment to the detriment of security and reliability. Nothing has ever really changed with Microsoft regardless of CEO except that they've become more willing to throw things away and start again — but of course they still make the transitions from one thing to the next in the same way in which they do every thing: with hands of ham.

Good thing for them lock-in works!

Microsoft would simultaneously have you believe that their products are so good people can't help but want to use them, and that China is a hard place to sell a product in successfully so of course it only makes sense for them to withdraw.

Fact is, all of Microsoft's products are outshone by someone else's now, and many of them are free, and most of them are even Free!

Microsoft has already been transitioning towards being a service company more than a product company with Azure and 365. They are an IBM or Oracle now. Nobody wants most of their products, but they have legacy products that it makes sense to put them next to. If you were starting from scratch today, you'd start with something else.

Yes, I agree, but it's insensible. The competition isn't going to wither because they have to compete with everyone, since it's an internet-delivered service. Plus, the industry is ripe for new developments from previously unknown players. Transformers made LLMs viable. What's the next development on that scale? It is of course unguessable, but if it doesn't come from Anthropic, they're not special.

They are never going to stop the hallucinations. They might get more rare but there is currently no path to that which does not involve a lot more processing time, and the AI DCs are already an issue.

Destroying Microsoft is great!

If they were they would tell us

But you're shit at critical thinking, so why would I care what you think? I'm also not here to impress any pedo loving maggots.

I'm not saying they can't go public or won't get investors. I'm saying it's not going to be $2T unless some other shit changes a lot.

You weren't wrong, because agents are software and the user interacts with them. You only forgot to consider beauty through the eyes of the masses of asses.

Finally I understand where turbo cancer comes from!

Politics is into you.

There's also nothing precluding someone else making some advance in this rapidly moving field that leaves them behind, and nothing prevents China from undercutting them with DCs running on cheap renewable energy in the not too far future.

First they have to find a route to profitability year on year, not just for a month and if you ignore a lot.

Or... We just need for the economy to keep going the way it's going and for the feds to print their way out of the problem, erasing a few zeros of net worth in the process

Slashdot is peopled primary with the atypical. We should never assume we're representative, as we usually aren't.

Modded down by someone who never made it out of elementary school, I reckon

Bet they vote for people who fuck people in elementary school, too