Lilly: Microsoft has completely lost its software distribution advantage
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John Lilly, partner at Greylock, analyzes how the shift from Windows PCs to mobile, tablets, and cloud platforms eroded Microsoft's dominance.
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“Microsoft has completely lost the distribution advantage, because people don't really create as much as a higher percentage of their material anymore on, on Windows machines.”
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