Microsoft Volume II

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Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

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Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.

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Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.

Technology

Business,

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Microsoft Volume II

Acquired

4 hours 51 minutes

10 months ago

Microsoft Volume II

In 1999, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world. And in 2019, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world, again. But… what happened in the twenty years in between? The answer, as we discovered in our research, is probably not what you think.

In this episode we explore and analyze the browser wars and the DOJ case, Windows XP through 8, Surface, Xbox, search, Yahoo!, Bing, the iPhone, Nokia, mobile, social, Facebook… and oh yeah, a little thing called Azure and the enterprise — which ended up becoming so big that no failures mattered. Tune in for Microsoft, Volume II.

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