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Opinion
Blank: Ballmer collapsed Microsoft OS share by missing mobile and search
“He basically took Microsoft operating system share from 98% to probably two percent today, right? If you now count mobile devices, right? They're just irrelevant. Because he was so focused on extending the windows ecosystem. They missed mobile. They missed sea…”
Steve Blank Dec 21, 2023 ▶ 48:48 Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany)
Opinion
Cramer: Windows is much better than Mac for work these days
“I am a Microsoft loyalist now. And I was like the old school, like hate on windows kind of guy, you know, and now I use windows almost exclusively for like even work. Fortunately, I just don't need to log into certain things, and I love it. Like, I actually th…”
David Cramer Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 1:26:32 How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)
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