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Microsoft is coming back in a big way though. Sure, it may not have the dominance it used to have but they've learned from the problems of the Ballmer era. Saty
by gfo 9y ago
Microsoft is coming back in a big way though. Sure, it may not have the dominance it used to have but they've learned from the problems of the Ballmer era. Satya Nadella seems to be a huge proponent of meeting customers where they are and it's paying off in a huge way.
If Facebook learns to listen to their customers the way Microsoft has (as opposed to trying to tell them what they want) then they could recover. But with Facebook, users are starting to have large issues with its core business model, and to listen to customers and adopt the changes they want, it would cost them too much and would eventually disappear as so many others have before them.
- isostatic 9y ago> Microsoft is coming back in a big way though. Really? They still have corporate desktops and cheap skanky laptops (for some reason), but azure is not a challange to AWS, they aren't in the media business, the home market is being chipped away, where are they doing better now then they were 12 months ago?
- spiralx 9y agohttps://www.forbes.com/sites/laurengensler/2017/07/20/microsoft-fourth-quarter-earnings-cloud-azure/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurengensler/2017/07/20/micros... Since 12 months ago profits have doubled, shares are up 19%, revenue is up 13%, cloud revenue is up 11%, cash reserves are up, oh, and PC-related revenue is down a whopping 2%. Actually the latest quarter shows cloud revenue up 98% (I assume year-on-year), so Azure is doing pretty well. https://www.computerworlduk.com/it-vendors/is-microsoft-azure-really-making-up-ground-on-aws-3671566/ https://www.computerworlduk.com/it-vendors/is-microsoft-azur...