Nope, there's no way that's true. Microsoft is only succeeding in cloud computing based on their existing reputation and business relationships, and software they managed to port as a service (O365). Without those their cloud would have crashed and burned as the buggy, slow, unreliable, insecure [1] mess that it is.

1 - if you feel like disputing the security record of Azure, they're literally the only big public cloud with more than 0 (and multiple at that!) critical cross-tenant security vulnerabilities, at least some of which were extremely trivial to exploit.

No, not really. The PowerShell modules for the several M365 admin centres are, including the “new” MSGraph API, buggy, inconsistent and missing vital features across the board.

PowerShell is great, MickeySofts own modules, not.

This interpretation was based off of this tweet by Snover^1

> A couple of years ago and senior exec told me that PowerShell was THE technology that enabled Microsoft to move to the cloud.

> He said that Exchange lead the way and that it could never have done it if weren’t for PowerShell.

> I had never heard that perspective. But liked it.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting it, or he is stroking his own ego, but there at least is one source for it

1. https://twitter.com/jsnover/status/1523020982490832896