151: The Big Five
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Microsoft offered up some fantastic announcements this week at their 2017 build conference, but is the real takeaway that the future of tech going to be another innovation-stifling oligopoly? Can we break this cycle, or is it too late?
Microsoft offered up some fantastic announcements this week at their 2017 build conference, but is the real takeaway that the future of tech going to be another innovation-stifling oligopoly? Can we break this cycle, or is it too late?
Links for this episode:
Tech’s ‘Frightful 5’ Will Dominate Digital Life for Foreseeable FutureNew York Times: "There’s a little parlor game that people in Silicon Valley like to play. Let’s call it, Who’s Losing?"
Microsoft Build 2017
The official page. :)
Microsoft revealed its plans for world domination at Build
Engadget: "Microsoft just wrapped up its Build developer conference, and the unifying theme was clear: Windows and Cortana everywhere. Whether it's linking Windows to all your other devices or letting developers code for various platforms from their PCs, Microsoft is making a bigger effort to get its hooks in all aspects of our tech lives."