Broken Windows

Too Long; Didn't Read

Just as our eyes are the window to our soul, Windows is the window to Microsoft’s soul and in spite of what their <a href="https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:MSFT" target="_blank">rising share price</a> might indicate, Microsoft is destined to hit a plateau and stagnate if they maintain present course. Obviously, you would be a fool to deny that they are absolutely killing it with Azure and Office 365, but those products cannot stand on their own without Windows. Acting as both a lynchpin and as a funnel for the rest of Microsoft’s products, Windows creates a natural upgrade path for Office, Active Directory, Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, Office 365, Azure, CRM, and others as businesses scale. Without Windows creating a natural upgrade path for these services though, they would be forced to run on merit alone which is something that they were never designed to do. Needless to say and just as it has always been, when Windows is in jeopardy Microsoft as a whole is also in jeopardy and things don’t seem to be going well for Windows these days.