That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit - eviltoast

When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless

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    8 months ago

    Japan too. The U.S. Congress threatened Japan with a trade war if they didn’t shutter their TRON project to create a domestic Unix. Nowadays it’s almost entirely Windows, and Japan has stagnated in terms of technology. They might have another chance at it with the world searching for an alternative to Taiwan for semiconductors and the potential legal status of AI training in Japan.