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Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy

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In 1999, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world. And in 2019, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world, again. But… what happened in the twenty years in between? The answer, as we discovered in our research, is probably not what you think. In this episode we explore and analyze the browser wars and the DOJ case, Windows XP through 8, Surface, Xbox, search, Yahoo!, Bing, the iPhone, Nokia, mobile, social, Facebook… and oh yeah, a little thing called Azure and the enterprise — which ended up becoming so big that no failures mattered. Tune in for Microsoft, Volume II. ‍ Chase Center Live Show in SF: Sponsors: Many thanks to our fantastic Season 14 partners: Links: Carve Outs: Note: references to Fortune in ServiceNow sponsor sections are from Fortune ©2023. Used under license. Sponsors: Sponsors: More Acquired: Thank you! You're now subscribed to our email list, and will get new episodes when they drop. Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form T

Microsoft Volume II | Acquired so Cloudflare URLs win cascade before parses and triggers font fetches --> back transcript • Season 14 | episode 6 Microsoft Volume II Ben: I’m a little hoarse today, so hopefully we don’t have to do a lot of talking David: Good luck with that. Ben: All right, let’s do this. Ben: Welcome to season 14 episode 6, the season finale of Acquired, the podcast about great companies and the stories and playbooks behind them. I’m Ben Gilbert. David: I’m David Rosenthal. Ben: And we are your hosts. Well listeners, here we are. Microsoft Volume II, at long last. After the a

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