Recently, I realized how true this is. They're convinced the Microsoft logo is a sure sell. They're entering saturated markets & losing. Now the higher Windows Server costs meant to push people to their cloud are just driving people away.
At high mind-share, anything anti-competitive wins more share, but at low mind-share, it does the opposite.
- Closed hardware: ARM devices locked to Windows, Locked-out Boot for Intel/AMD forcing people to make the choice
- Closed-cloud: why write Windows server software that's MS Cloud only when you could write Google App Engine software that'll run faster?
Microsoft wants to succeed in becoming incompatible with everyone and everything. With a little more grown-up Office alternatives, the world will have no use for them anymore.