China is calling out all assets
He totally left out Microsoft Azure. And they just won the huge DOD Cloud contract.
I do not trust MS. I do not trust MS-NBC. manipulation of the general population seems to be the endgame. Megalomaniac billionaires trying to take over the world. Chairman Mao any one. Sway an election? Buy a newspaper and influence the voters?!
Azure is a force to be reckoned with in the current cloud environment, so I agree about that.
But not because of that JEDI contract. 10B over 10 years is small potatoes. Yes, I know it “represents” a potentially larger long-term commitment, but I don’t see that as a given yet. There’s a lot of perception that the only reason Amazon lost and Microsoft won was because Trump hates Bezos. Whether that’s true or not is immaterial — the perception counts, and will keep Amazon and others in the running.
Besides, while Azure is substantial, it has no social media for the public. Teams is strictly corporate (my company uses it; it’s actually not bad).
Azure is for PaaS, IaaS and SaaS. the article talks about Social Media networks
He did mention it as a powerful rival to Amazon’s cloud services.