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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Falling Windows Market Share
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 01:01:13 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:57:40 -0400, Paul wrote:

> Microsoft still has a pile of cash, and there's no chance of it just
> disappearing ...

Everything will be fine until the day you wake up and realize it isn’t.

Now we see the reason for this Windows/Xbox mashup idea that they’re 
promoting: by joining two different declining markets together into a 
single product, they hope to prop up both businesses.

The trouble with that is: combining different product lines only makes 
sense if you get some synergy out of it. In this case, we just have two 
mediocre product components dragging each other down.