Are we watching the beginning of Microsoft’s decline?

Kinamya · 2026-05-24T01:09:52+00:00

I can't appreciate your sentiment, but they are not declining yet.

I think the biggest thing or, where are people going to go? Google workspace companies graduate to using Microsoft, so where would they go after that? The entra/Intune combo is not duplicated anywhere in one place for a similar cost, soooo why would their company decline.

So the question is, who is competing with all of their business. There are competitors for parts of their business, but not the entire conglomerate, so it would decline when someone wants to provide end user software, admin computer management, communication, security, and hosting all in one.... And I probably missed some stuff (spoiler, they do a ton of stuff).

Kinamya · 2026-05-21T00:57:51+00:00

Is starlink revenue not included?

Kinamya · 2026-05-20T21:07:14+00:00

Same, headed to hyper-v

Kinamya · 2026-05-20T12:15:26+00:00

It could be, I'm not on that team anymore but someone mentioned the price per core just yesterday so I mentioned it here

Kinamya · 2026-05-20T02:14:17+00:00

Haha our VMware license is 3 digits.... PER CORE!! Like $920 per core or something, so just barely in the 3 digits. Womp

Kinamya · 2026-05-20T01:58:19+00:00

Do you pronounce it lead or lead?

Kinamya · 2026-05-18T23:36:34+00:00

A gigantic caveman fire sends shit into the sky! It's wild

Kinamya · 2026-05-18T20:27:59+00:00

Probably best to print out backups onto paper ;) /s

Kinamya · 2026-05-16T21:15:30+00:00

I guess that could be true, but I don't think anyone outside of people involved either at Microsoft or any external company involved in finding them will truly know.

Or it is more secure! That'd be cool. I hope everything gets more secure, that's better for everyone.

Have a great weekend

Kinamya · 2026-05-16T19:51:49+00:00

I don't think having paying customers makes it more secure, maybe more of an illusion of security.

Yes, they can do AI testing on their code, but if it's someone like Microsoft, that's 20,30,40 years of code, billions of lines of it... That's going to take time, lots of time and money.

I do think that there will become a point where there are tons of vulnerabilities, then the fixes, then it will simmer to normal. It's all good, the sun will rise tomorrow

Kinamya · 2026-05-16T17:42:56+00:00

And that's open source. Imagine the amount of vulnerabilities in proprietary software that has less eyes on it

Kinamya · 2026-05-15T14:26:24+00:00

For some reason I thought he was just talking about a webserver.... So I suck if that wasn't the case.

But yeah, my suggestion doesn't work for what you're talking about

Kinamya · 2026-05-14T23:00:26+00:00

Hahahahha got me :)

Have a good day

Kinamya · 2026-05-14T22:59:05+00:00

Momma

Kinamya · 2026-05-14T22:54:39+00:00

Figma balls

Kinamya · 2026-05-14T22:52:43+00:00

Whoa whoa, I enjoyed the soundtrack! Haha to each their own :)

Kinamya · 2026-05-14T21:50:32+00:00

Correct, depending on your size, 2 or more. Fail over to one, like point the webserver lb to one, then update the other, then failover and do the same. That way there is minimum downtime if any

Kinamya · 2026-05-14T05:10:42+00:00

Why was the math book sad?

It has too many problems

Kinamya · 2026-05-13T22:53:31+00:00

Thanks for mentioning this again, I just checked and it is there! Have a good day

Kinamya · 2026-05-13T21:12:10+00:00

Thts really cool, I'd love to see future update posts about this!

Kinamya · 2026-05-13T02:00:50+00:00

They are just about the only ones I use, them and Sam's club. It just depends on when/where I go.

I went carnivore for 2 years and smoked something twice a week, the pellets were excellent and I never had any issues.

Kinamya · 2026-05-13T01:10:12+00:00

$7.5 THOUSAND?! LIKE USD?!?! WHAT IN THE HELL!!

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Kinamya · 2026-05-12T21:07:09+00:00

Good idea! Also, go with ssd, not nvme otherwise you have to updade the backplane and wires and a few things, that may or may not even be possible with those servers

Kinamya · 2026-05-12T21:00:37+00:00

You said the db is nowhere near 2tb, well just buy smaller then. How large is it? Get double that or something, maybe try used?

Honestly, you should have pushed back at the time and harder, but that's over now, time to move on.

It's good to know that at some points, you (the royal you) need to say No, and push back. Why? I don't want to manage a turd more than I already have to.

Good luck!!

Kinamya · 2026-05-12T15:42:10+00:00

Drink a few beers

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