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Whether through Azure's cloud infrastructure, Office 365's productivity suite or the ubiquitous Windows, Microsoft's presence touches nearly every aspect of our digital lives. Six product lines now produce more than $US10 billion ($15 billion) in annual revenues.
It wasn't always like this. In early 2000, co-founder Bill Gates left the company and Microsoft began its slide towards a lost decade. Back then, everything in Microsoft revolved around Windows, to the point that maintaining its dominance was more important than anything else.
The monopoly mindset caught the attention of European competition regulators – Microsoft was eventually fined $US730 million ($1.1 billion) for non-compliance of settlement conditions in the browser wars – but was also driving the company into a Windows-obsessed
