[HN Gopher] Satya Nadella: "I want to use this tactically vs. GO... ___________________________________________________________________ Satya Nadella: "I want to use this tactically vs. GOOG/AAPL" (2022) Author : mfiguiere Score : 30 points Date : 2023-09-16 22:27 UTC (33 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (twitter.com) (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com) | spaceflunky wrote: | Can anyone ELI5 the significance of this? | woodruffw wrote: | I think it's being posted in light of the USG's pending | antitrust lawsuit against Google[1]. | | (However, that case concerns digital advertising, and this | document seems to have been produced by discovery in a | different case. So I'm not sure if it's relevant beyond the | general theme of "Google considers other companies | competitors.") | | [1]: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues- | googl... | privacyking wrote: | It's basically analogous to what Valve is doing with steam. | Windows has a monopoly on PC gaming and Valve does not want to | be subject to any future restrictions or requirements that may | be enforced in the future, so they funded andfacilitated gaming | on Linux based PCs. | | Analogously, Microsoft doesn't want to be subject to the | duopoly of Google and Apple with mobile (gaming), so they want | their cloud steaming platform available on competitors. | upon_drumhead wrote: | I didn't even realize Microsoft had a steaming game service. Is | it widely used? | deprecative wrote: | The UK's rejection of the ActiBlizzKing acquisition was because | of Microsoft's cloud business. | jstx1 wrote: | As a side note, I like how direct and casual these megacorp CEO | emails are. | davikr wrote: | > Sent from Mail for Windows I appreciate the dogfooding. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-09-16 23:00 UTC)