[jmathai]

I'm not saying they've found zero success. XBox live is probably the biggest.

At Microsoft's size they aren't really looking for "pretty big deal" successes.

Bing is probably around 15% market share. A home run for most but not (yet) for MS.

I can't really comment on Windows Azure. I'll take your word for it but I think Amazon is eating Google and Microsoft's lunch here.

This isn't a fight for second place.....

[skc]

Apologies, I was assuming we were talking about the technical chops of the two companies when it comes to building web scale services.

[jmathai]

Apologies not needed. That raises a question though.

I was implying that Apple and Microsoft don't do as well building web services. I wouldn't argue that Azure can't scale but the overall approach seems to be a little bit "unfinished".

Let me explain, the only true cloud computing environment that really solves 90% of any companies needs is AWS. Somehow Amazon understands what the developer community needs. I'm really perplexed by Google not getting this right.

Apple doesn't and I don't believe Microsoft does either.

I don't think this is about technical chops. It's something else that I can't put my finger on.

Similar to how I don't understand how Amazon crushed Best Buy so quickly.