I have been in a Microsoft adjacent company (meaning lots of people bounced to and from Microsoft to it) and all this makes a lot of sense. The almost ideological “everything in house” and politically oriented philosophy they had fits like a glove. Some of the ex Microsoft people hated it, some of them missed it. But the picture they made was pretty bleak.

Given how windows is going what’s described in the article doesn’t seem so shocking either. Even though they need not be correlated products, I can’t help but seeing a similar shortsightedness in the playbooks they are adopting.