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"brilliant"

I think "predictable" is more apt.

>>cphoov+(OP)
It makes perfect sense for Satya, Sam, and Greg, but I doubt many of us thought deeply enough to have predicted it in advance.

>>cphoov+(OP)
link to your prediction?

>>singul+46
I mean there weren't a lot of options.

>>cphoov+(OP)
I've read a decent amount of predictions about this and had not actually seen this one or considered it until I read about it happening.

I think the predictable thing would have been a new company with new investment from Microsoft. But this is better; it a bit like magical thinking that MS would want to just throw more money after a new venture and essentially write off the old one. This solution accomplished similar things, but gives more to Microsoft in the trade by bringing that "new company" fully in house.

>>boring+5A
Yes but I didn't see this one discussed at all. Did you? Curious to see those threads if you have links. I might have just missed them.