The poster really underrates being first and biggest, and IME overrates the value of Office to the CIO, especially for a drastically unrelated product like Azur

The poster really underrates being first and biggest, and IME overrates the value of Office to the CIO, especially for a drastically unrelated product like Azure. The real keys for AWS are time in market and mindshare. They were pretty well the sole active player for what, half a decade? While it's not a guarantee of success if you spot any business five years of active growth and selling they're going to be hard to displace.