Microsoft
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Tweetstorm Digest: July 10, 2014
Reprising today’s @charlesfitz Tweetstorm: 1\ Some quick reactions to @satyanadella morning Microsoft missive (sprawling, like the company). 2\ A first step to answering the biggest question about the company: why does it exist beyond just perpetuating its past? 3\ Shift from vapid (realizing potential) or means (devices & services, cloud-first/mobile-first) to end (productivity) is long…
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A Dispatch from Cloud City
A few end of the year observations from Cloud City (aka Seattle): Image via TK769 Cloud Infrastructure AWS remains a beast. Yet a chink in their armor is emerging… Azure has become the clear challenger to AWS. The much maligned Mr. Ballmer is not getting credit for Microsoft’s embrace and execution on cloud. Unlike most…
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Exploring Alternative History
Bloomberg has a nice piece revisiting the broad vision Microsoft laid out in June 2000 at the grandiosely named Forum 2000. They even have an edited cut of some of the scenario videos developed for the event to bring the vision to life. The event was originally scheduled to open the new millennium in January…