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Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products

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296 points mohi-kalantari | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 16:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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this_user ◴[08 Dec 25 17:12 UTC] No.46194851[source]▶
Microsoft's entire business model for decades has been to shove shoddy products down people's throats. And somehow, they have figured out how to do it too, because otherwise Teams wouldn't be used by anyone.
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dboreham ◴[08 Dec 25 17:56 UTC] No.46195436[source]▶
People here are mostly too young to remember but the original Microsoft business model was this:

Find a software market currently addressed by high price products; create a reasonably good product for that market; sell it for significantly less than the incumbent. Sell much higher volume of said product than the incumbent, thereby make much more profit. Repeat/rinse.

The Windows lock-in, embrace extend etc came after this. You can't lock in customers if they didn't already willingly buy your product.

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1. larkost ◴[08 Dec 25 18:25 UTC] No.46195799[source]▶
No the original Microsoft business model was to get the incumbent (IBM) to bundle your product (DOS, bought from someone else) onto their product so that you had a near-monopoly, then use that to sell your other software onto that, occasionally making technical changes to make it difficult for your competitors.