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The cloud stuff, especially Azure, is Microsoft at their best - and Nadella having come from that part of the business is what preserves hope for the long run.
by fidotron 12y ago
The cloud stuff, especially Azure, is Microsoft at their best - and Nadella having come from that part of the business is what preserves hope for the long run.
The reason for this is MS are on the backfoot, but instead of playing defensively they've gone all out to hit every selling point their competition have, and then add their own stuff too, while leveraging what is quite a lot of existing small and medium business lockin to migrate over to the cloud as appropriate. Many people (myself included) thought Amazon, Rackspace etc. would prevent this from working, but they've done it really well.
I've also seen a lot of companies move to Office 365, when previously they'd have gone with Google Docs. They seem to have prevented that threat from getting much further too.
- jonrimmer 12y agoDoes Nadella really deserve credit for Azure though, or Scott Guthrie? Azure was a joke until Guthrie took over, even MS employees couldn't figure out how to use it, and he turned it around in a matter of months.
- bashmohandes 12y agoThat's true, until you know who promoted Guthrie to lead the division. It was Nadella
- vyrotek 12y agoAs someone who has been using Windows Azure since '09 I have to really congratulate Scott Gu and others involved for turning things around. It was a serious hot mess back then. Deploying your code took way too much work to configure and 20 min to wait for it to deploy. The Visual Studio integration is pretty slick now. The latest management portal though? I'm not so sure about that...
- jf 12y agoNadella does deserve at least some credit for Azure. During my time at Microsoft, I was quite pleased to hear that Nadella had said something like: "We can either sell the 'One Microsoft' vision, or we can make money" - which I understood was how he explained why Azure was adding support for Linux.
- CmonDev 12y agoScott Guthrie abandoned Silverlight after giving speeches about how it is the best technology. Soon enough he will ruin Azure despite Nadella's efforts.
- SideburnsOfDoom 12y agoSilverlight did not fail because WFP is a bad technology. Silverlight failed because the market for flash-style browser plugins was drying up and moving to JavaScript.
- CmonDev 12y agoEnterprise was as happy to be using it as ever.