“What do we actually need to be productive?”
Which is how Anthropic pulled ahead of Microsoft, that prioritized
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Taking screenshots of every windows user’s desktop every few seconds. For productivity.
Attempt to build a product... Fail.
Buy someone else's product/steal someone else's product... Succeed.
I mean they fought the browser war for years, then just used Chrome.
Then they took their eyes off the ball - whether it was protecting the Windows fort (why create an app that has all the functionality of an OS that you give away for free - mostly on Windows, some Mac versions, but no Linux support) when people are paying for Windows OR they just diverted the IE devs to some other "hot" product, browser progress stagnated, even with XMLHttpRequest.