In 2007 Paul Graham, the founder of Y-Combinator, penned an essay titled Microsoft is Dead. The thesis of the article was that Microsoft had become irrelevant thanks to the combination of the internet, Mac computers and Google’s services. In fact at the time, Y-Combinator didn’t bother inviting Microsoft to its demo days to meet any of their startups, but did invite Yahoo which at the time was a more relevant company.I was at Microsoft from 2002 until 2019 and pretty much agreed that Microsoft w...