• JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    (whatever we currently call the) FAANG

    I don’t know how they ever left Microsoft out of that, but I think they’re going with MAMAA now (no Netflix, add Microsoft, swap for Meta and Alphabet)

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      10 months ago

      Microsoft was left out because when it was first coined, Microsoft seemed to be heading down the IBM path of giving up on innovative technology and just becoming a beige box company for enterprise. They’ve since turned that around substantially, but the acronym has stuck.