VSCode is a pretty big deal.

Xbox Game Pass is a good idea and the series X also looks like a good bet.

Buying GitHub was smart, WSL is also a very positive move for developers.

Azure is in second place behind AWS with Google a distant third.

Typescript is doing really well too.

That’s a lot of positive moves around a coherent strategy.

Stratechery goes into more detail, and I think makes a pretty compelling case.

It’s not comparable to IBM in my opinion, I think MSFT has really righted the ship - I think they’re in a strong position for the future.

It's wild how much good association I have with Microsoft right now. I never think of masssive companies in positive ways usually. I had to catch myself when a friend brought them up and I wanted to talk about how much I like VSCode, WSL, and Typescript. I know there's probably a good chance it's the embrace, extend, extinguish but damn the embrace phase is nice

Office 365, OneDrive, Azure, Teams and all the other things they've been doing online with effectively single-sign on are having amazing synergy between them (in my opinion). I think people are massively under-appreciating what they're building towards. MS is taking over slowly in the background.

I agree. Office 365 family plan is a great deal. My personal workflow centers on Google Workspace, but if Google were to disappear tomorrow, it would only take a few hours to switch to Office 365 being my driver for personal information, writing materials, etc.