Re:90 Cents of Every 'Pay-For-Performance' Dollar for CEOs A...
by dragontamer on Friday September 30, 2016 @04:14PM
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Compare Microsoft with their 90s peers: IBM, Sun, and Oracle.
Tell me who you'd rather be among the major forces of the 90s. My bet? I'd rather be Microsoft.
The responsibilities of an enterprise-level deployment mean that Microsoft was ill-suited for the changes that occurred in the mid-2000s, just like its other enterprise competitors.
Still, despite being handicapped by Enterprise customers, Microsoft performed okay in the transition to cloud. I mean, Azure actually exists and arguably is a bigger platform than Google's Compute Engine.
Microsoft's track record is that it's 2nd best at a lot of things. Microsoft is 2nd best at cloud (Azure), 2nd best at Bing (remember: Yahoo uses Bing as a backend), 3rd best at web browsers (Edge / IE). 2nd best at gaming (PS4 > Xbox > Wii U in terms of this generation's sales).
They're not really in a bad position at all. They're just not a dominant giant.
Tell me who you'd rather be among the major forces of the 90s. My bet? I'd rather be Microsoft.
The responsibilities of an enterprise-level deployment mean that Microsoft was ill-suited for the changes that occurred in the mid-2000s, just like its other enterprise competitors.
Still, despite being handicapped by Enterprise customers, Microsoft performed okay in the transition to cloud. I mean, Azure actually exists and arguably is a bigger platform than Google's Compute Engine.
Microsoft's track record is that it's 2nd best at a lot of things. Microsoft is 2nd best at cloud (Azure), 2nd best at Bing (remember: Yahoo uses Bing as a backend), 3rd best at web browsers (Edge / IE). 2nd best at gaming (PS4 > Xbox > Wii U in terms of this generation's sales).
They're not really in a bad position at all. They're just not a dominant giant.