Category: Microsoft

In a striking example of just how big the enterprise cloud has become and how rapidly it’s growing, Google Cloud Platform’s disclosure of an impressive $4-billion forward-looking annualized revenue run rate leaves GCP about $15 billion behindthe parallel metrics for Cloud Wars leaders Microsoft, Amazon and IBM. For calendar 2017, the seven biggest enterprise-cloud vendors—Microsoft, Amazon, IBM,

Quick quiz—name the company whose “top news stories of 2013” included the following: shut down the Zune Marketplace; bought Nokia’s smartphone business for about $7 billion; quickly followed the disastrous release of a new operating system (8) with an upgrade/replacement (8.1); introduced two new tablets; lost trademark battle for the name “SkyDrive.” It seems utterly