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Originally Posted by TrashyGirl
True all.
Other points.... Silverlight did not take over Flash as MS expected when HTML5 rolled out. Windows Azure Cloud Services barely ranks in the Top 10 of Cloud Service Providers (Amazon AWS kicks their ass). Windows phone is anemic at best. Yeah, Bill's mattress is stuffed with cash. Windows Server and Office 365 as private cloud products are faring well. But, I can see as the title of this thread states, that MS could be obsolete by 2017 if they don't start playing catch-up in some areas or remain the leader of the pack in others.
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Amazon Cloud servers sucks also. So I wouldn't read much into what these top 10 lists say, as a lot of the smaller companies that provide cloud servers wouldn't be on there but have an excellent product with better support. I've never used Azure though. So I don't know. But most people in adult are one man operations with dedicated servers and really dont understand the inner workings of a real corporate network. Which is where Microsoft has a strong hold and really is not going anywhere. There is no replacement for Active Directory or Exchange. Companies arent going to start teaching employees how to use a new OS. Everyone in the world work force can pretty much get on a windows desktop, start outlook, send an email. Open word, excel etc and start working. They arent going to change this. There is also no real competition for it. The thing is, these things go in cycles. Just like Vista. No companies used Vista. They went from XP to 7. Maybe they wont get new desktops with Windows 8, but they will with windows 10. It just is what it is..Now in the consumer sector, with certain devices. mobile, tablets etc. There shit sucks. Always has, always will. And no matter what how good or bad Microsoft cloud products are. When it comes to getting customers, microsoft has a field sales team. They get face to face with customer, they will get customers...