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Azure founders reflect on Microsoft’s first decade as a public cloud vendor

Azure founders reflect on Microsoft’s first decade as a public cloud vendor

Microsoft’s Azure operating system, codenamed “Red Dog,” was designed by a team of Microsoft OS experts including Dave Cutler, the father of VMS and Windows NT starting in latter half of the 2000s. Azure launched in February 2010 and has become the foundation of the “new” Microsoft over the past decade. In 2008, I had a chance to interview the Azure founding-team members. This month,… Source link

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Microsoft’s Quarter Looks Worse This Way

Microsoft’s Quarter Looks Worse This Way

Microsoft rolled out a new way to report earnings with its first quarter, 2016 earnings on Thursday. This new reporting structure consolidated Microsoft’s businesses into three new units. The previous structure had two major units (commercial and consumer) and broke out a few different businesses in each of those. As you can see, under the old scheme, all business units shrunk except two: … Source link

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