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Interesting observations, not original but of course that is hard to get these days. Microsoft is ran by engineers and people with strong engineering backgrounds. That means that a lot of what the "old stuffy" Microsoft wanted to achieve by billing the hell out of companies is now being achieved in a more modern, may I even say a different way. I have dealt with Microsoft as a company for over 20 years, as a customer, as an enthusiast and I know how the company is shifting. I frequent many of their events and I am also frequently reading many of the blogs and community news. I like how the company is shifting into providing services, let's face it, techies are not good at selling stuff. Microsoft recently gave up on Lumia, not sure where they are going with the hardware platform on the Surface lines. Hardware has never been a strong for them, although mice and keyboards were once highly recommended. The new Microsoft still has some of it's old glamour and "stuffiness" but it is slowly moving away. We all can argue that the base code of Microsoft is actually a form of Unix and that the more modern Unix operating systems are more about kernel optimizations and adjustment to the hardware layer for containers and sand boxing. Together with the BI and SQL engines it is now providing a different, better fitting to the future, platform. Don't get me wrong, running their services is still very expensive if you know we spend millions in licensing and services. It is all about allowing integration because without there is only an island and they were on this island until 2014 when things started to shift. Customers, like us, are very sceptical as we do not always understand the why and the how. I run, today, just as easy with Windows 10 as I do with Linux and all of them utilize the services offered by Microsoft. Our developers can easily integrate their code and use object based storage which runs on a specific version of RedHat Linux (EMC ATMOS). I like the "new" Microsoft although I am of the old club that keeps a close eye on my wireshark....