Your circles are really small and echo-chamber-y.

Office was considered a very solid product for many generations. Windows 95 was loved. So were Windows 2000, Windows XP with the SPs, Windows 7, Windows 10.

.NET was the envy of the Java world for many years.

Microsoft had many duds but they also had some great products.

You can't sell as many products as they did without also having some good products.

> My plot increased 3 times in price in 10 years. Try to beat that with SP500. It’s virtually immune to inflation no matter how the broader economy fares it will always shield from inflation because you cannot make more land hah.

The GFC says hi :-)