Microsoft
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The Minesweeper Moment
Shortly after Windows 3.0 shipped, we rounded up and shipped some of the games floating around inside Microsoft, most of which were byproducts of developers teaching themselves to program Windows. Minesweeper was one of the games in the first Entertainment Pack for Windows (tagline: “It’s not just the most fun you can have with Windows,…
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The DOJ Play at Home Game
While last year’s Platformonomics Holiday Gift Guide brought seasonal joy to vast swathes of humanity, this year’s holiday recommendation has a very specific audience: Googlers. To my friends at Google: You did a great job over the years keeping your email boring and mostly devoid of colorful yet easily cherrypicked soundbites. But your antitrust reckoning…
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Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2019 Edition
“CAPEX rules everything around me…” Coming from a very asset-light software background (“You get a new laptop! You get a new laptop!”), I was enthralled by the very different set of skills and materials necessary to combine with software to build large scale data centers in the early 2000s. That fascination turned into an early…