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Boosted by jwz:
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:
RE: https://mastodon.world/@paninid/116445313743159155
This _seems_ bananas, but you have to appreciate Microsoft's central role in computing as a _consumer of excess capacity_ that only incidentally produces useful outputs. That is to say, the classic cycle of the computing _economy_ has been that chipmakers, mostly Intel, build faster machines, then Windows and Office grow to soak up that excess capacity, driving demand for yet faster hardware. But... there's a plausible need in that cycle for Windows, Word, etc.
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