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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.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 3:40:53 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.
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.