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Perplexity CEO claims Microsoft engineered office work dependency to sell software

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Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas made a provocative claim about Microsoft's business strategy during an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience. He argued that Bill Gates deliberately pursued a vision of placing a PC on every desk to make workers dependent on Microsoft software. According to Srinivas, this approach was driven by software sales rather than design innovation, training generations of employees to rely on tools like Word and Excel. The strategy, he suggested, effectively created the modern 9-to-5 office worker as a byproduct of Microsoft's profit model.

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