If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Whether by design or circumstance, every startup will eventually get disrupted.
Failure will happen. It's a normal part of the startup process.
I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.
Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world.
Startups often have to do dubious things.
Not all startups are alike. One of the key ways they differ is in the relationship between a startup's new product and its market.
Startups have finite time and resources to find product/market fit before they run out of money. Therefore startups trade off certainty for speed, adopting 'good enough decision making' and iterating and pivoting as they fail, learn, and discover their business model.
Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.
The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.
I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.