this bloomberg article re: microsoft under nadella is totally worth the read.
it’s really difficult to recognize the microsoft from the ballmer era vs. what we see today. the products and the stuff coming out of microsoft is actualy pretty exciting. their hardware is decent, their cloud presence and developer support (hello, github.) is first rate and they’re consistently chipping away at AWS in the cloud space.
20 years ago, if you would have told me that they’d be sticking a linux layer into their OS and you’d have something approximating a useful unix userspace environment in your PC, i would have thought you were quite high.