Why is Microsoft giving up on its own platform and giving its users to WordPress.com?

(written by Lawrence Krubner, however indented passages are often quotes)

Interesting. Microsoft seems to lack anything resembling a strategy. I recall circa 1993 hearing about Windows NT and thinking that it sounded amazing. I later learned that its “amazingness” was all marketing hype. Seems like its been awhile since Microsoft was able to create that kind of unearned admiration around its products. It has lost the marketing talent it once had.

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