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Wait, their shit is together? I don't really think so. Their mobile situation is zombie-ish, they still haven't really done much on the web, and as far as I hav

Wait, their shit is together? I don't really think so. Their mobile situation is zombie-ish, they still haven't really done much on the web, and as far as I have heard nobody is using their cloud services. How is their shit together?

harrytuttle 13y ago
Where did you get your crack pipe? Mobile situation is great. They are growing and now they have control over Nokia, they can do an Xbox i.e. make it succeed even if it's a loss leader for a bit. Not only that they still have piles of WinCE industrial devices going out of the door. Not done much on the web. Are you blind? Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, Skype, Bing (which isn't as shit as people like to say) at least 3 complete web stacks, the most complete API implementation across all products, devdiv. They do everything Google does already apart from social which they leave to Facebook as after all they threw some cash in that direction. Oh and they do all that on the desktop AS WELL. Nobody using their cloud - yeah right: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-29/microsoft-azure-sales-top-1-billion-challenging-amazon.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-29/microsoft-azure-sal... I think you are suffering from what I term as "the other reality distortion field" which is where people are blind to the actual facts on the table. There is a huge difference between the legendary portrayal of Microsoft by the tech media and the reality. Just watch the reality doesn't bite you on the arse one day.
- jamesaguilar 13y ago
  I have no dog in the os fight. I'm happy to use any of the big three (if you can count Linux among the big three ;)). I'm unlikely to be bitten by Microsoft succeeding. Quite the opposite, since they would have to create an extremely compelling experience to dig themselves out of the hole, I would probably benefit.
ams6110 13y ago
Azure is in fact a bright spot for MS; no it's not as big as EC2 but people are using it. Where their cloud is not doing so well is on the private side, I don't hear a lot about people running Azure private clouds in their own data centers; contrast VMware, Eucalyptus and OpenStack.
- atesti 13y ago
  Is that available? When I read ScottGu's (a fantastic manager at Microsoft!) blog I always think: If I was ever using cloud, that would look nice. I was not aware that I could run all this stuff on our own servers!

harrytuttle 13y ago

Where did you get your crack pipe? Mobile situation is great. They are growing and now they have control over Nokia, they can do an Xbox i.e. make it succeed even if it's a loss leader for a bit. Not only that they still have piles of WinCE industrial devices going out of the door. Not done much on the web. Are you blind? Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, Skype, Bing (which isn't as shit as people like to say) at least 3 complete web stacks, the most complete API implementation across all products, devdiv. They do everything Google does already apart from social which they leave to Facebook as after all they threw some cash in that direction. Oh and they do all that on the desktop AS WELL. Nobody using their cloud - yeah right: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-29/microsoft-azure-sales-top-1-billion-challenging-amazon.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-29/microsoft-azure-sal... I think you are suffering from what I term as "the other reality distortion field" which is where people are blind to the actual facts on the table. There is a huge difference between the legendary portrayal of Microsoft by the tech media and the reality. Just watch the reality doesn't bite you on the arse one day.

jamesaguilar 13y ago
I have no dog in the os fight. I'm happy to use any of the big three (if you can count Linux among the big three ;)). I'm unlikely to be bitten by Microsoft succeeding. Quite the opposite, since they would have to create an extremely compelling experience to dig themselves out of the hole, I would probably benefit.

ams6110 13y ago

Azure is in fact a bright spot for MS; no it's not as big as EC2 but people are using it. Where their cloud is not doing so well is on the private side, I don't hear a lot about people running Azure private clouds in their own data centers; contrast VMware, Eucalyptus and OpenStack.

atesti 13y ago
Is that available? When I read ScottGu's (a fantastic manager at Microsoft!) blog I always think: If I was ever using cloud, that would look nice. I was not aware that I could run all this stuff on our own servers!