Windows Server, every mention
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The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 47:02 David Rosenthal So at a certain point along the way, you get to, well, I want to say the Holy Trinity, but I think there are more than three pieces of this, but the real killer suite in enterprises, which is Windows, Windows Server, Active Directory,…
- ▶ 50:35 Steve Ballmer Well, remember, by this time, we're not through our IBM competition, and we got Linux competition now on the docket, because Linux is competing with Windows Server.
- ▶ 51:58 Steve Ballmer I mean, people say that they might mean Azure, AWS, or in the old days, Windows, or Windows Server, or Unix, uh, then Linux.
- ▶ 56:03 Steve Ballmer We're trying to get people to write for Windows Server.
- ▶ 56:26 Steve Ballmer We need them to do Windows Server.
- ▶ 1:02:58 Steve Ballmer And that worked for us on Windows Server.
- ▶ 1:18:27 Steve Ballmer We've been doing that with Windows server and SQL server.
- ▶ 1:21:46 Steve Ballmer Windows Server had a strong developer group.
- ▶ 1:23:21 Steve Ballmer And then on Windows Server, Unix was stronger on the back end.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:23:32 Ben Gilbert And they ended up reforking from an old Windows Server version or something.
- ▶ 2:27:15 David Rosenthal So, Brian Valentine comes over from Exchange, you know, in Windows Server in the enterprise world to take over managing, getting something out the door and just cut all the features, cut all the pillars of the Windows Longhorn vision.
- ▶ 3:39:50 Ben Gilbert Microsoft has a group that produces a product called Windows Server, and that is an operating system that runs on other people's servers.
- ▶ 3:39:58 Ben Gilbert And that group is not the group that produced Azure, the cloud service that runs, at the time, Windows Server.
- ▶ 3:40:06 David Rosenthal The reason for that is that this is completely disruptive to the whole Windows Server and Server and Tools
- ▶ 3:40:53 Ben Gilbert Yeah, these Dell servers are running Windows Server, but Dell sold a bunch of servers, probably through Accenture, to the end customer.
- ▶ 3:44:27 Ben Gilbert If you remember, when Azure launched, it was Windows Azure, and it ran Windows Server, and it was Platform as a Service, and Microsoft in no way changed its tune on open source.
- ▶ 3:49:40 Ben Gilbert Intelligent Cloud includes SQL Server and Windows Server, so these are big legacy businesses.
- ▶ 3:53:09 Ben Gilbert I mean, there was some conflict business model-wise with Windows Server, since Azure would be an orthogonal business model, but the technical chops were there.
- ▶ 3:55:19 David Rosenthal There's a chance they're not even paying for my enterprise software services like Exchange or, like, you know, Windows Server or whatever.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:12:35 David Rosenthal The punchline here is that NT becomes the seeds of Windows Server, the business line, which become the seeds of Azure today.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 1:37:46 Ben Gilbert One is that the Windows group just had too much power, and between them and the Windows Server people and the SQL Server people,
- ▶ 1:37:53 Ben Gilbert The goal of those groups was to get customers to do more with this idea that people thought was going to be big for a while, PCs taking over the data center, and PC operating systems becoming the data center operating system, and really…
- ▶ 1:38:27 Ben Gilbert But they did eventually realize that they had to make a big bet on Azure and totally separate from Windows Server.
- ▶ 1:38:49 Ben Gilbert They realize, okay, Azure needs to be a thing that's kept separate and has CEO sponsorship and can sort of escape the Windows Server thing.
- ▶ 1:39:15 Ben Gilbert What they should have done is gone to everyone that was using Windows Server and say, great news.