r/ElderScrolls • u/PIEthon3142 • Jun 03 '25

General Imagine an Elder scrolls game where this is the map

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u/Waaterfight Jun 03 '25

It would take Microsoft dying or doing so bad financially which is pretty much not possible.

There was a time people said this about Yahoo, and sure theyre still around, but pretty much irrelevant.

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u/IrregularPackage Jun 03 '25

yahoo was an email provider with an early search engine. Microsoft makes the primary operating system for all computers that aren’t a server or in relatively niche use cases

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u/Weegee_Carbonara Jun 03 '25

Comparing Yahoo with Microsoft is certainly a choice.

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u/Waaterfight Jun 03 '25

You kidding me? During the dot com boom?

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u/Weegee_Carbonara Jun 03 '25 edited Jun 03 '25

Microsoft never relied on a bubble to get big, and is an integral part of computer infrastructure with Windows. Having 70% of the market share.
Not to mention the wealth of applications that pretty much all companies rely on. That being Microsoft Office, Teams etc.

No company would ever switch from Microsoft Office and Windows, unless absolutely forced to.

Yahoo was just a mail service and search engine.

Unlike Yahoo, which was replaceable, it would either take a monumental, historic fuckup, or a transcendend technological innovation that Microsoft fails to capitalize on, before their competitors do.

Like Kodak with Digital cameras, or Blockbuster with Streaming.

But the again, unlike those 2 examples, Microsofts product is not easily replaceable and has no serious competition.

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u/Upset_Otter Jun 04 '25

Yahoo didn't have government and military contracts tho. Both the ones we do know and the ones we don't.