| You are sampling outside of Microsoft's market. For eg. * Instead of GitHub they use Codeplex [0] * Instead of web servers they sell network servers, a much larger market. Windows still holds 73% of this market, and growing. It is worth $20B a year and is much larger than the web server market [1] * Outlook is still the most popular mail client in the world (27%) * Office is Office, one of the most profitable business units in the world * 550M PC's are sold each year and 85% of them run Windows * Still 39% of the browser market [3] * There are Microsoft clients in the Fortune 100-500 that store more data than the entire public internet (taken as being 5 petabytes - most investment banks store data in petabyte scale) * Visual Studio is not only the most popular IDE, but also the highest selling and grossing [4] Your data points are based on open source and web servers, which are only a tiny fraction of the total computing and networking market. It is the remainder of that market where Microsoft dominates. I don't think they are even going to pretend to attempt to infiltrate that market, they have a much larger market to defend. I don't work within the Microsoft ecosystem any longer, but I did for over a decade. I agree with OP that Azure will win, all of my Microsoft development and admin friends are raving about it and moving their clients/organizations onto it. [0] http://codeplex.org [1] http://blogs.computerworld.com/16263/windows_widens_lead_ove... [3] http://royal.pingdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/web-brow... [4] http://www.internetnews.com/stats/article.php/3616626/Whats+... |
The .Net devs that I know all use github, not codeplex. Is there any data behind this? Both are in use (and others), but in what proportion?