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An Azure that was going to be Windows only. What Ballmer actually succeeded in doing was entrenching windows inside every enterprise Fortune 500 by basically b
by random314 4y ago
An Azure that was going to be Windows only.
What Ballmer actually succeeded in doing was entrenching windows inside every enterprise Fortune 500 by basically bundling everything from Office, Sharepoint, SQL server etc. This business is still going strong and switching to a subscription model. Before Ballmer, Microsoft was a consumer OS company.
- b112 4y agoBefore Ballmer, Microsoft was a consumer OS company. Microsoft was always a business facing company. Companies used NT from the start of time, and every business on the planet has been using Windows since the 90s. Microsoft has spent its entire lifetime slowly strangling and destroying other businesses, and pulling them over to their product lines. Word vs Wordperfect is one example. Wordperfect used to be completely dominant. Ballmer may have etched up Windows dominance a few points in a few markets, and I agree he continued this trend. He continued to expand into new markets. But it seems very weird to hear someone say he is responsible for getting businesses to use Windows, or caused M$ to focus on businesses.