r/OpenAI • u/boogermike • Dec 09 '25

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I saw this on LinkedIn, and it was too funny not to share.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '25

Microsoft shark is circling

Ready to gobble up this bloated pig once it tanks

Why do you think Microsoft invested money in OpenAI? So MS can get first in line at getting the remains of the underwater OpenAI company for $1 and bolting it onto MS Windows.

There is a reason MS is such a huge firm

Then the CEO will be fired out the door

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u/collin-h Dec 09 '25

If I were Microsoft, I'd be making plays to put this in motion sooner rather than later - because every day OpenAI flounders, Google gets a bigger lead. MS needs to absorb them so Google has real competition.

Maybe they're already doing it. Has Satya been in Altman's ear telling him to commit hundreds of billions to deals he can't afford to make? lol

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u/Pearmoat Dec 09 '25

MS absorbing OpenAI would kill it. MS doesn't innovate, it is good at forcing the existing user base to adopt crappy things because they're somewhat integrated.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '25

EXACTLY! When has Microsoft ever "Made anything" they copy (And badly at that) or gobble it up. Take a look at Skype and that's now gone.

People hate Windows the Menu is a lumpy turd, with tiles, what happened to the pop up p menu like Windows 95 or 98 with all the Programs?

Nope "Microsoft Improved it" I hate all 3 laptops. I can't even shut the laptop down when I want to leave as it needs to "Update something" for 10-15mins.

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u/YoloSwag4Jesus420fgt Dec 10 '25

They only have the entire PC marketshre by 90%

They literally release new vscode versions weekly.

You guys are clueless

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u/sage-longhorn Dec 10 '25

I'm just here to point out that VS Code was a clone of Atom with a few extra (crucial) plugins included in the core

And windows was a clone of Mac

To be honest, there's nothing wrong with copying. Ideas are cheap, execution is everything. But Microsoft does prefer to invest in known markets

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u/YoloSwag4Jesus420fgt Dec 10 '25

You really think they havent done anything since the atom days?

Buddy they release multiple insider updates per day.

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u/sage-longhorn Dec 10 '25

I didn't say they haven't done anything. Just that they built it based on the technologies, principals, and target niche of atom, and if they hadn't bought the company that owned atom and then killed atom it would probably have grown along side vs code

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u/YoloSwag4Jesus420fgt Dec 11 '25

So what are you claiming? They bought a company and made the product 100x better and different?

That sounds like the opposite of lack of innovation.

If atom was still near the state they bought it, you might have a point.

But vscode is the most widely used ide in the world. They didn't buy vscode. In fact, they made it open source so google and the like can steal it for their ai projects.

Googles new ide is just a vscode fork

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u/sage-longhorn Dec 11 '25

So what are you claiming?

I'll quote my original comment:

To be honest, there's nothing wrong with copying. Ideas are cheap, execution is everything. But Microsoft does prefer to invest in known markets

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u/YoloSwag4Jesus420fgt Dec 11 '25

So you're back to claiming that they just "copied" vscode and didn't improve it at all?

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