This is a blog post I kind over never thought I'd write, as I thought of MS being stuck in the old world with Office products, Sharepoint and struggling even with the latest Windows versions. As an example I was testing Azure two years ago and it was very clunky and not really a serious contender to Amazon's AWS feature-wise.
Fast forward to today. Nadella's MS seems to be very real about being on all kinds of devices and Azure is elegant and efficient - I'd say very close to being on-par with AWS (which I also love, by the way), even for us that is basically mainly a Linux-based shop on the server side. And locally we see a quite new humbleness in the organization of the giant and a willingness to work with and help startups.
So hats off to Microsoft. Well done. Be sure to keep on improving.
Full disclosure: My firm has received some free usage of Azure via MS's Bizspark Plus program and this is the way I got to use Azure more again, but the sense of radical improvement is very real.
Fast forward to today. Nadella's MS seems to be very real about being on all kinds of devices and Azure is elegant and efficient - I'd say very close to being on-par with AWS (which I also love, by the way), even for us that is basically mainly a Linux-based shop on the server side. And locally we see a quite new humbleness in the organization of the giant and a willingness to work with and help startups.
So hats off to Microsoft. Well done. Be sure to keep on improving.
Full disclosure: My firm has received some free usage of Azure via MS's Bizspark Plus program and this is the way I got to use Azure more again, but the sense of radical improvement is very real.
