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I don't know, I remember Lotus seemingly collapsing overnight. One minute it was playing catchup all the time, but still a major player in office software, the

I don't know, I remember Lotus seemingly collapsing overnight. One minute it was playing catchup all the time, but still a major player in office software, the next, it was just gone.

simonh 12y ago
The same pretty much happened to Nokia and Blackberry. Those were all one trick ponies though. MS is a huge company with numerous product ranges operating in many different markets. Many of those businesses are doing very well, and have been for a decade or more. If any one of their Office, exchange, SQL Server, Azure, Windows desktop, etc businesses almost completely failed the others would largely be fine. They can't afford to be complacent of course. They need to be able to crack new markets and execute effectively on their current products. Their failure in mobile and two botched updates to Windows are very worrying. But Satya was instrumental in building their Azure business, a very successful new revenue generating product in a space not generally seen as an MS strength.