Should Microsoft sell Windows and Office? This former exec believes so:
A former Microsoft executive has offered up some advice for current CEO Satya Nadella: spin off Windows and Office and focus on Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing crown jewel.
Ben Slivka, a 14-year veteran at Microsoft who left in 1999, gave the unsolicited advice to Nadella in an interview with CNBC, saying: "The right thing probably is to bet the future on the cloud."
[...] On top of this, Nadella invested heavily in building out Azure and other enterprise-focused offerings to compete with Amazon's AWS and Google Cloud. By some estimates, Azure hold 20% of the cloud market, below AWS' 32% and above Google's 9%.
According to analysts that CNBC spoke to, spinning off Windows and Office would make very little sense. Nadella has built significant and much-needed synergies between Microsoft's various businesses, in such a way that the rise of one boosts the others.
So what do you think?
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @03:20PM (3 children)
I got better. Oracle could buy them.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday January 13 2022, @06:27PM (1 child)
This could be a good thing.
The entire .NET runtime system could be rewritten in Java.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 14 2022, @12:04AM
Log4Shell wants a word with you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 14 2022, @10:44AM
Touche. That indeed would be worse.