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Should Microsoft Sell Windows and Office? This Former Exec Believes So

posted by janrinok on Thursday January 13 2022, @07:12AM   

upstart writes:

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?

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• Re:It'd finally stop them fscking it up even more (Score: 3, Funny) by driverless on Friday January 14 2022, @09:17AM

  by driverless (4770) on Friday January 14 2022, @09:17AM (#1212645)

  Microsoft needs to ditch the Ribbon interface in Office and other Microsoft software.

  Maybe they could gamify it, I hear that's trendy. So you have all 857 buttons from the Ribbon floating around at the top of the screen and you have a cannon at the bottom controlled by the mouse wheel that you use to shoot the one you want to activate, that'd make using a word processor much more fun and engaging!

  Perhaps they could store them in the blockchain for extra cromulence.

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