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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Enrahim2" data-source="post: 8894189" data-attributes="member: 7039850">Well, it was only the claim that Microsoft somehow wasn't a platform company when the execs where there that I thought were surely mistanken. I cannot say for certain that the described mindset is actually not in play, but that would be despite knowing very well the theory around ecosystem building, not despite of it.How is Amazon not a platform company? Two of their huge income sources are as a storefront for other creators, and the AWS platform software creators (that they pay hefty sums to use). Chris Cocks left Microsoft in 2016. Microsoft has essentially been a platform company since it's inception (though it's approach to it has evolved). Without 3PP creators making products for DOS or Windows, who would have used them? And who do you think pay for Azure?</blockquote>