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Remember the Scarecrows lament in The Wizard of Oz, If only I had a brain? If we were doing a consumer tech take on this classic, it seems to me investors could lament, If only Microsoft had a right-brain.
Before you Windows fans deem me the Wicked Writer, hear me out. For the record, I am typing this article on a PC so no taunts of me being poisoned by the rotten Apple. Im not saying Microsoft is lacking in gray matter. But I am proposing that Microsoft, as an entity, is strongly left-brained, and this is a major reason it has floundered for over a decade. As a counterpoint, Apple has prospered an understatement because its whole-brained. Id venture to guess Googles corporate brain, as Ill call it, falls somewhere in between Microsofts and Apples.
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