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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Microsoft makes a lot of money, Is Intel exceptionally
 unsuccessful as an architecture designer?
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:44:48 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:20:56 -1000, Lynn Wheeler wrote:

> MS employees were commenting that customers had been buying the latest
> releases for the new features ... but it had reached the point where the
> releases they were running now had 98% of the features they wanted (and
> the company wasn't sure what to do next).

Verity Stob once asked the question: “name one feature of Microsoft Office 
that you use daily, that was added this century”.

Think about it. ;)