Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations

Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by tracker1 on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:24PM (#20481193)

What I do appreciate is how much effort MS has put into improving various application platforms and making sure they run well everywhere (mostly). I use Windows, Mac and Linux regularly and appreciate everything that runs everywhere mostly the same.

As to Azure cloud, they are okay and probably worth it in some circles. I think AD and O365 in Azure are absolutely worth it. I'm, however, unsure if Azure as a whole is as worth it. It looks like k8s is winning the core infrastructure war and allows you to do things wherever you want. And while I think Azure Storage services are absolutely great to work with compared to competing cloud offerings, they are all a bit of a lock in.

Best to stay as close to open and portable as possible, or go all in on a single cloud. Everyone's use case is different.

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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by basch on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:39PM (#20481335)

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/kubernetes-servic...

Microsoft is a clear number two in marketshare, you really cant discount how much of enterprise america would rather do business with Microsoft than other vendors. https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CIS_Q119.j...

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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by spatley on Friday July 19, 2019 @03:32PM (#20481751)

One of Azure’s big selling points is “not amazon” which hols a lot of appeal for retail and other enterprise clients. “Good enough” will get you miles along in that segment.

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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by kerng on Friday July 19, 2019 @10:32PM (#20483837)

It doesnt matter, since Microsoft recently started embracing things, rather the duplicating - e.g. you can perfectly well run Kubernetis on Azure.

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