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I think the Microsoft prediction is even more off...
by king_magic 7y ago
I think the Microsoft prediction is even more off...
- jbigelow76 7y agoMy gut response to his thought of MS pivoting to consulting a la IBM was way off but after thinking about it for a minute you could kind of make a case that Azure is a form of "self-serve operationalized consulting", he was just off on it's impact and success by a factor of 50 or 100.
- kortilla 7y agoWell then every SaaS is just consulting. That’s pretty pointless then.
- freehunter 7y agoI heard someone recently describe the value proposition of enterprise cloud like IBM and Azure as “not having to talk to a sales guy as a service”.
- asveikau 7y agoThere was one comment in the thread about what Steve Jobs will do at the end of the decade. As a ghost I suppose? (Another says he will step down due to his health, which is closer.) My favorite is the joke that Zuck will buy Portugal.
- xixixao 7y agoJobs was alive in 2010.
- asveikau 7y agoYes I know. As in the saying. Hindsight is 20/20.
- daveFNbuck 7y agoSaying he'll step down due to his health isn't just closer. It's what happened. He resigned a bit over a month before his death.
- TheKarateKid 7y agoYou have to remember that in 2010, Windows was still saving its reputation from Vista, Office was stale, and OneDrive didn’t exist. I don’t think Azure did, and if so it was more enterprise focused. Nadella’s excellent pivoting of MS into a cloud and services focused company saved Microsoft from a stagnant or declining state.
- king_magic 7y agoI don’t disagree that was the situation at the time - but it doesn’t change how incorrect the prediction was :-)