Also, you have to consider the size of Microsoft relative to its ownership of OpenAI, future dilution, and how Microsoft itself will fare in the future. If, say, Microsoft is on a path towards decreasing relevance/marketshare/profitability, any gains from its stake in OpenAI may be offset by its diminishing fortunes.
That’s a big if. I see a lot of people in big enterprises who would never even consider anything other than Microsoft and Azure.
One thing I will say is the Azure documentation is some of the most cumbersome to navigate I've ever experienced, there is a dearth of information in there, you just have to know how to find it.
Couldn’t they just throw money at the problem? Or fire the criminals who designed it?
b) You design for the audience. The complexity that person-who-would-ever-use-GCP will deal with is far beyond what the average internet user would ever endure.
Because things are going to change soon. What nobody know is what things exactly, and in what direction.
Windows workstations and servers are now "joined" to Azure instead, where they used to be joined to domain controller servers. Microsoft will soon enough stop supporting that older domain controller design (soon as in a decade).
Both of which seem to be true.
Hell, I'm still amazed they got away with the Office-licenses-only-usable-on-Azure bullshit, but here we are.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wall-street-says-yahoos-worth-l...
Some people's convictions and lack of reading comprehension skills are certainly wild.
The biggest real threat to MS position is the Trump administration pushing foreign customers away with stuff like shutting down the ICJ Microsoft accounts, but that'll hurt AWS and Google equally much (The winners of that will be Alibaba and other foregin providers that can't compete in full enterprise stacks today).
We were cloud shopping, and they came by as well with REALLY good discount. Luckily our CTO was massively afraid of what would happen after that discount ran out.