> This is a nice PR bit, but I wonder if it really matters?
Over the last year I've seen a huge push to move away from AWS from retail clients. Azure is a lot more appealing because Microsoft doesn't compete with them.
Over the last year I've seen a huge push to move away from AWS from retail clients. Azure is a lot more appealing because Microsoft doesn't compete with them.
Microsoft was famous for doing the same thing: http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html
> There is all the more reason for startups to write Web-based software now, because writing desktop software has become a lot less fun. If you want to write desktop software now you do it on Microsoft's terms, calling their APIs and working around their buggy OS. And if you manage to write something that takes off, you may find that you were merely doing market research for Microsoft.
Spyglass, which licensed its browser to Microsoft in return for a percentage
of each sale; Microsoft turned the browser into Internet Explorer and bundled
it with Windows, giving it away to gain market share but effectively
destroying any chance of Spyglass making money from the deal they had signed
with Microsoft; Spyglass sued for deception and won a $8 million settlement.