Subj : Re: Never do a system full update at nig
To   : Mark Hofmann
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Sat Jul 17 2021 07:06:00

-=> Mark Hofmann wrote to Nick Andre <=-

 MH> Very true.  Microsoft makes the vast majority of their money from their
 MH> cloud services, which would include O365.  Not to mention these are
 MH> recurring revenue platforms which is even better for them.  Their
 MH> desktop OS is lower on the priority list at this point.  I'm sure they
 MH> are working on ways to pull that into the cloud and will want people to
 MH> run Windows 12 via RDP in the cloud or Hyper-V.  Boot to cloud.. That
 MH> would be the end of that OS.


They just announced Windows 365. I could imagine they'd concoct another cut- 
down version of Windows OS that removes most everything except RDP and try 
to re-invent Citrix and thin clients.

 MH> I will say I am surprised just how much market share they ended up with
 MH> in the cloud.  I really thought Amazon and Google would dominate and MS
 MH> would get some left overs.  What kept them in play was Exchange and
 MH> Active Directory and it moving to the cloud.  That started their cloud
 MH> migration and is the main glue that keeps them together in the cloud
 MH> space.

Azure is pretty good. I'm more of an AWS guy these days, but used Azure in 
my last job, and liked it.


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