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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by mrdodge on Friday August 23, 2013 @04:04PM (#6265965)
And how much growth potential is there in selling Active Directory, Excel, and Exchange?

Every sizable company already has these things installed. Smaller and new companies may choose to spend their dollars elsewhere and that's a change of events for Microsoft. Projects that previously would go on Sharepoint are now done less expensively with cloud services, for example.

In tech, growth is in consumer, and with consumer tech drifting in to the enterprise, even enterprise IT spending may not go to Microsoft.

Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by Spearchucker on Friday August 23, 2013 @04:38PM (#6266119)
Who knows? What I do know is that this is exactly what I was hearing in the late 90's.
Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by Systemic33 on Friday August 23, 2013 @06:32PM (#6266595)
You can't really blame people for abandoning sharepoint, it's really an excellent display of why you shouldn't try to interbreed all your gui applications with internetexplorer iframes. It's literally the worst MS have ever produced.
Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by locusm on Friday August 23, 2013 @08:29PM (#6267029)
That said, Im amazed at the volume of seemingly smart people that choose to implement that steaming pile of poo.