Food for thought about large companies, their demise, and ways to regain relevance

Regarding Microsoft, perhaps they have learned a few lessons in the post Steve Ballmer years and are returning to their core values (in the current age of technology).

This may or may not be "THE way" or the only way, but it is food for thought.

Also, Microsoft, in the last 5 years or so (again after the Ballmer regime) has. had a much smarter attitude toward Linux, much more like the attitude of IBM, HP, Dell - and more recently, looking at the success of Amazon, Facebook, Linkedin, git, etc. and they've embraced these technologies and they are a major player in cloud services, which puts them back in the business - to - business conversation once again.

It's even possible that Microsoft may eventually either dump Windows altogether or use open source technologies as core components of its underpinnings.  Don't be surprised if this happened.  I predicted it as long ago as 1999 that such components would dominate, and they do.  But because of Steve Ballmer, it took MSFT nearly 20 years to get on the right path, when, had they done it first, they could be #1 in this too, so in that regard, perhaps it's best that there are 3-4 solid competitors in this space!