Agreed, but that used to be the difference between MS and Google.
MS would bend backwards to make sure those enterprise Windows 0.24 boxes will still be able to connect to networks because those run some 16bit drivers for CNC machines.
Meanwhile Google decided to kill a product the second whoever introduced it on stage walked off it.
Azure is a money-maked for MS, and wouldn't be so without those weird legacy enterprise deployments. The big question is if continuing to increase a posture about about security together with an "cloud" focus is actually in their best interest or if retaining those legacy enterprises would have been smarter.
MS would bend backwards to make sure those enterprise Windows 0.24 boxes will still be able to connect to networks because those run some 16bit drivers for CNC machines.
Meanwhile Google decided to kill a product the second whoever introduced it on stage walked off it.
Azure is a money-maked for MS, and wouldn't be so without those weird legacy enterprise deployments. The big question is if continuing to increase a posture about about security together with an "cloud" focus is actually in their best interest or if retaining those legacy enterprises would have been smarter.