GeekWire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The center of gravity in software development has shifted to smartphones, the cloud, and the web. Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen chose to produce software for a range of PCs, rather than making hardware of their own. It was just a hint of the giant wave of third-party software to come.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

While Apple had been ahead in producing mouse-driven GUIs at the time, it remained focused on the combination of hardware and software. Microsoft had already created its low-cost PC DOS operating system for IBM PCs, and was firmly positioned as a software company. Windows XP (2001). With Windows 1.0, Windows 95 (1995).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The clearest example comes from GitHub, the software development platform acquired by Microsoft in 2018. Examples include Microsoft’s development of the breakthrough Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model, and the more recent Phi-3 and Phi-3.5 And now it’s starting to boil.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 14, 2011

In seeking to develop direct relationships with its end-customers—which most book publishers don’t have—it chose to develop its own capabilities for the Internet and online community development. Despite being historically a software firm rather than hardware vendor, it was easy for it to outsource manufacturing of the console.

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