They absolutely did. Microsoft was late to web and now we have O365, Azure, etc.
I'd say, however, that this is less FOMO and more employee-retention. A team shifting from electric cars to generative AI sounds more like a directionless hype squad where you park flight risks who can still add value to other departments while they play with the newest shiny.
That's silly. Desktop Office is a '90s product and O365 is there smart rebuild for the 2010s and beyond, fully embracing the web and SAAS and finally shedding cardboard boxes with CDs inside.
Car engineers working on computer vision and sensors or autonomous driving should be able to slide into Apple hardware and software spaces without too much effort if they're wedded to Apple or Apple makes it lucrative for them to park there while they figure out how to better utilize the talent.
It's almost like you've never been involved in any of this kind of thing but nevertheless needed to participate and be heard. I appreciate that. it happens. But your reply was actually mindless.
The issue with MSFT is they missed a lot during the era when they had to deal with regulators. It took away basically their whole decade starting from early 2000s.
It was because they were breaking the law, got found guilty, and settled with the DOJ agreeing to that decade of dealing with regulators enforcing a Microsoft authored consent decree.
And thank god their hands were tied for decade so others could come up and we weren't all stuck with MS for another decade or longer.
I'd say, however, that this is less FOMO and more employee-retention. A team shifting from electric cars to generative AI sounds more like a directionless hype squad where you park flight risks who can still add value to other departments while they play with the newest shiny.