https://medium.com/@wtfmitchel/azure-vs-moores-law-2020-65a6fe67e31b
As a result of undershooting their projected capacity by such a large margin, Microsoft was way off on their capacity projections with Azure and only built roughly 1/3 of the data center capacity that was actually necessary. Consequently, they had to over-provision their existing data centers to the point of tripping the breakers and rapidly fill the gaps with an excessive amount of leased space to meet the demand that they projected. All of which effectively doubled the amount of leased space in their portfolio from 25% to 50%, extended their break-even to nearly a decade, and killed their hopes of profitability any time soon.
While an honest mistake and not being able to foresee the future is forgivable, knowingly omitting a mistake of this magnitude is criminal when considering how much Microsoft is hedging its future on Azure. On top of supplying misleading revenue metrics in their quarterly 10K filings to fortify a position of strength and being second only to AWS, Microsoft seems to be wary about reporting Azure's individual performance metrics or news of these failings that would enable investors to conclude this for themselves. Instead, Microsoft appears to be averaging out Azure's losses with their legacy mainstays that are profitable by reporting its revenue within their Intelligent Cloud container instead of itemizing it.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 12 2019, @12:03AM (3 children)
Microsoft has always waited for other people to create stuff, then take it away from them. Microsoft doesn't have a history of creating stuff, or of innovating. Microsoft didn't even create Windows. They bought it off of some guy, then hammered and bludgeoned Windows into the shape they wanted. Or, they just steal what they need. How is Microsoft Java working out?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 12 2019, @12:09AM
Your signature, "We need to eat the babies! - some liberal at an AOC townhall meeting," seems like a modest proposal to me.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Saturday October 12 2019, @03:01AM (1 child)
They didn't buy Windows off some guy. Story is much more interesting than that. IBM was the Microsoft at this time and apparently was struggling with an OS for its hardware. Bill Gates had a meeting with them in which he got IBM to *lease* his OS. He left that meeting with a promise to deliver and went to the guy who actually owned DOS and purchased it for less than $100k IIRC. It was literally like purchasing a priceless multi-million dollar antique painting for 50c, all the while taking advantage of their ignorance.
Those are balls that clank :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 12 2019, @10:16AM
Now doing the same with Linux..