What is the point of Microsoft? 3.0
summary
Microsoft pivots from Windows-only to cloud and open source, hitting about $1.02 trillion market cap in Dec 2018 while Azure pushes into infrastructure (over half Azure VMs run Linux) and Office 365 subscriptions drive recurring revenue. .NET Core becomes genuinely cross‑platform with growing adoption, Visual Studio Code and WSL2 open Windows to non-Microsoft stacks, and Windows Mobile is dead. GitHub lands in Microsoft hands with 85 million repos 28 million developers 7.5 billion dollars, and dotnet core runs on Windows Linux and macOS as the concrete platform claim.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Start
- 6:10History ... Operating systems
- 9:02History ... applications
- 10:57History ... programming languages
- 14:50History ... cloud
- 17:07Browsers ... gateway to the web
- 19:12The Players
- 22:49But what do devs care about?
- 25:54Enterprise development
- 31:19NET Core and ASP.NET Core
- 37:37Welcome to the 'Dev' Store
- 41:20And GitHub
- 46:04Windows operating system
- 48:26Other stuff
- 50:51Apple response
- 53:16Who are you worried about?
- 56:02So the big question is?
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