re: "Microsoft has changed as a company"

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There's a ton of inertia in the business market,

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Oh definitely. They aren't dead, but they won't suddenly be IBM, SAP or Oracle when it comes to supporting multiple platforms/interoperability.

They have had a lot of success b.c their products are cheap to start with, and are easier to set up than competing products. When you look at lifetime costs of ownership, they don't match too well for business tasks. But so much of IT is not really looking at long term ownership costs.