| Meh, I don't see how Nadella's "vision" is praiseworthy either: * their flagship OS is more and more a spyware platform * Windows Server is pretty much a rarity these days outside of large corporate deployments. Anybody has seen MS SQL recently? * Azure seems to have reached its peak mind share, mostly pushed by free credits * Their gaming division mainly lives on Game Pass, while XBox is further and further away from Playstation and now there's Valve eating their lunch * Windows on ARM, even Windows branded laptops or 2-in-1s are a niche within a niche * What is a cell phone again? * Edge's philosophy is "as evil and spyware as Google, but worse". In fact, Microsoft as a whole is trying to badly emulate the peak evil Google of 2015+ Ballmer made some enormous blunders and a lot of his indecision proved costly. Nadella pushed proudly forward in destroying the Microsoft name all to make a quick buck. I'll give you VSCode and Github to be good ideas, though the latter is just an acquisition, not a bonafide good product built in house. |
However, generally, I could name a number of companies that descended into legacy irrelevance (not a few of which were acquired by Broadcom) but I wouldn't put Microsoft into that category at this point.