After all, the vast majority of personal computers are running Windows.
If Microsoft had shown a bit of ambition back then, releasing the WP phone products above the passing line, and then creating a closed-loop ecosystem with personal PC systems, phone sales wouldn't have been so poor that they ended up sitting at the same table as 'other'.
Giving away the enormous profits of search engines to Google was something beyond Qiao Yu's comprehension.
And the much-hyped Metaverse at the time has now disappeared without a trace of impact.
As for cloud computing, which can thrive as long as there's investment, being the world's second-largest doesn't seem to be something particularly boastful.
Even becoming the largest gaming company relied entirely on acquisitions. Bungie, Zenimax Media, Blizzard...
Hence, Qiao Yu can understand people praising Apple, Google, or even Intel and NVIDIA on the internet. But such frenzied praise for Microsoft really made Qiao Yu somewhat uneasy.
