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Microsoft Volume I

Acquired

CHAPTER

Microsoft's Strategic Success and Evolution

The chapter delves into Microsoft's strategic decisions that led to their success, including global expansion, leveraging network effects, and focusing on localization. It highlights Microsoft's approach of incorporating good ideas from competitors, learning from customer feedback, and capitalizing on platform shifts. The discussion also explores Microsoft's dominance in the ecosystem, scale economies, switching costs, and the importance of developers, applications, and OEMs in fostering growth.

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