[Ipg-smz] No Slack for you! Microsoft puts rival app o n internal list of ‘prohibited and discouraged’ software – GeekWire

[Scott Mace]

Throughout the years, the Microsoft Office group 
has steadfastly refused to adequately open up its 
data formats, nor embrace other formats.

Scott Mace

At 12:53 PM 6/24/2019, Gabe Goldberg wrote:

>The new banned list at Microsoft is a bit 
>surprising given that part of CEO Satya 
>Nadella’s successful strategy for reviving the 
>software giant 
><https://click.newsletters.fortune.com/?qs=d7dbcf64e89ab66842dc6310e44cebee15d3cb7ac153cbb0d4fb6c02cb507603c6c3523d6458c109a01002afa0571ef5042990d052b84c24>has 
>been to embrace other platforms and abandon the 
>only-made-here mindset. At the very least, 
>deeply knowing the competition would help ensure 
>Microsoft’s own products keep pace. 
>Historically, that may have been part of the 
>problem behind what Bill Gates just called 
>“one of the greatest mistakes of all time.” 
>Appearing at an event at VC firm Village Global 
>last week, Gates 
><https://click.newsletters.fortune.com/?qs=d7dbcf64e89ab668dafd3d489133836e624ff0123d1a917d3f1df76f9413836edd0dfb7f3151f2e62c1fc478ddddaf50e933c58916b63fcc>admitted 
>he made that all-time whopper by failing to 
>create the mobile operating system alternative 
>to Apple’s iOS. Instead, Google, where 
>co-founder Sergey Brin 
><https://click.newsletters.fortune.com/?qs=d7dbcf64e89ab66861ae044c902132f70cbdd48269d73372b309eb6fb1f29b20b3f12230d821ed60a66378acaf4662139d4e3f476fcf4bb0>was 
>an early fan and avid user of the iPhone, 
>grabbed the other spot. Gates called it a $400 billion mistake.
>
>Hopefully, history won’t repeat, despite the bans.
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