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My best guess: Expand the clientele of Azure from 'corporations and C# shops' to 'everybody and their grandma' like AWS has done - basically going after the lon
by m12k 6y ago
My best guess: Expand the clientele of Azure from 'corporations and C# shops' to 'everybody and their grandma' like AWS has done - basically going after the long tail of cloud hosting. And I think, apart from improving Azure itself, they're also trying to do this by making sure the best possible developer experience is via Microsoft's developer infrastructure, so they get every chance to 'upsell' and integrate seamlessly in the tools you're already using. At the same time, they're trying to make cross platform development (via Xamarin and WSL) the most convenient way to target other OS's, so they're still in on the action when iOS, Android and Linux webservers are involved.
- toomuchtodo 6y ago> basically going after the long tail of cloud hosting. I want to really stress that your thesis is on point, but it's not about cloud hosting per se. If software is eating the world, and everyone is going to have some level of proficiency as a dev, Microsoft is targeting being the digital operating system of the economy. You write and run your business on Microsoft, whether you're a Fortune 500 or 5 people working out of a coworking space, and you can even get email, team chat, office apps, workflow automation tools, and everything else under the MS umbrella if that's what your business needs.
- danielscrubs 6y agoDevelopers, developers, developers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaVTHG-Ev4k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaVTHG-Ev4k I don't know if I should be happy about Microsoft going away from the Not Invented Here-mindset or sad that the best companies get owned by the biggest companies.