>Microsoft knows they won big in Cloud via Azure Big as in 100s of billions. Malarkey. Microsoft got where they are in cloud by dogfooding every single piece

>Microsoft knows they won big in Cloud via Azure Big as in 100s of billions. Malarkey. Microsoft got where they are in cloud by dogfooding every single piece of software they wrote into their cloud platform, every single service they ran on their gaming platform, and every single user on github and minecraft. After that they turned to corporate customers and forced them into the cloud as well and finally made every single end user of windows sign up too (cant miss any of those precious KPIs.) If they won anything it wasnt through genuine consumer desire to use Azure. The efforts were mostly a shuffling of deck chairs and pump-job similar to the IIS wars on netcraft back in the day where M$ would pump their IIS numbers with static content served from parked websites at hosting providers they paid to switch from Apache. >They have so much money lying around. Better to invest where they think the puck will be. they also have a track record of building things no one wants and ruining things everyone likes. Minecraft and Github are demonstrably worse in a lot of ways than they were before redmond took the helm. having a lot of money doesnt make you clairvoyant. >Meta is all in, Google is all in, Microsoft is all in. who the fuck cares? these are all companies that exist in the nadier of their innovation. that they collectively scrape barrel to come up with tech memes for the business kids isnt exactly remarkable outside the fact they havent delivered anything of value in so long its surprising we still have to hear about them at all. >Tesla is betting they’ll be the biggest robotics company on the planet. The guys who cant get self-drive right? run by the same guy who pedaled twitter into the ground? sure. AI is a meme for these companies...a parlour trick they use on the money pump for just another year longer before its reinvented into some other nonsensical sci fi pablum for general consumption under the late hour of capitalism.