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Except now they have billion dollar data centers they need your servers on and don't care if you use their software as long as they turn a profit from the hosti
by crb002 8y ago
Except now they have billion dollar data centers they need your servers on and don't care if you use their software as long as they turn a profit from the hosting. Bill G is probably kicking himself for not renting servers decades ago.
- da_chicken 8y ago"Decades"? Bandwidth requirements and difficulty of virtualization essentially precluded enterprise cloud hosting much more than one decade ago. Virtualization was essentially impractical or mainframe only until Intel added VT-x. Two decades ago most Internet users were on AOL dialup. And anyways, Azure is #2 behind AWS, so it's not like they're doing badly.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoEC2 was released over a decade ago. And Microsoft could’ve done it way easier than Amazon.
- da_chicken 8y agoAnd it went out of beta not quite a decade ago (October 2008). Whether you count it 2003 or 2006 or 2008, however, I still wouldn't call it "decades" which is what I was objecting to.
- erikpukinskis 8y ago“Decades” referred to how long MS has had the opportunity.