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[–] Paddzr 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Homie, motherfucking Microsoft couldn't put a dent in STEAM.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Please Microsoft couldn't even maintain Skype dominance after they bought it.

[–] Hugin 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair they bought skype to break it's end to end encryption at the behest of the us govt. In return they were awarded big contracts.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

True, they ended P2P networking and proper encryption. It was pretty obvious in the context of Prysm scandal

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

And they killed MSN for it.