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"Really failed"? According to Forbes in July of this year[0], Microsoft is second only to Amazon in the cloud market, and gaining. I'm not sure how that counts
by thinkpad20 12y ago
"Really failed"? According to Forbes in July of this year[0], Microsoft is second only to Amazon in the cloud market, and gaining. I'm not sure how that counts as a failure, except in the sense that Microsoft makes a popular whipping boy.
[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2014/07/28/amazon-is-facing-a-cloud-crisis-as-microsoft-muscles-in/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2014/07/28/amazon-i...
- bkeroack 12y agoI suspect (but don't have confirmation) that this includes Microsoft's SaaS products like Exchange Online/O365, which are very successful. I get the impression that Azure specifically as PaaS/IaaS, OTOH, is quite a bit less so. At least compared to AWS.