What are the Odds?
"He noted businesses providing "cloud" based services from companies such as Microsoft would grow faster than those providing hosted versions of Microsoft's software."
Strewth, Stevie boy is way out of his depth in the Cloud environment if he thinks that there will be any companies like Microsoft in Virtualisation.
Is that why Bill jumped ship, .... for he realised that the ITitanic had sailed into Icy Waters and the company have no Life rafts for Passengers and/or Crew? If he's twice as clever as he thinks he is, he may even be able to invent another fortune rather than bluff and buffett his way, trying to hold on to his credibility whilst the dollar store is emptied ....... although it may very well be that the Microsoft model is to recognise and buy up Future Talent rather than it being any Innate Invention Facility of their Own.
But they [Steve and Bill] are not alone in their Virtually Real Ignorance, for Joe Tucci also appears determined to be a massive loser...... although I suppose they all think that they are Leaders rather than just Hubrists
Cloud Players do not need Parasitic Hosts and they are SMART enough to ensure that, should they encounter them, they are drained of their resources and reduced to just an empty shell corporation/monumental memory of folly if they continually resist and ignore Virtual CHange Plays.
"There will be businesses that you're in today that won't exist 10 years from now because the technology will have advanced so far." ...... Is there anyone taking bets that one of missing/extraordinarily rendered will be Microsoft?
And is Mendel Rosenblum still playing with Joe Tucci/Sleeping with the Enemy?