A Primer on Microsoft

Microsoft has spent fifty years building platforms that sit underneath the modern economy. BASIC made early computers usable. MS DOS and Windows standardized personal computing. Office and Azure be...

Microsoft has spent fifty years building platforms that sit underneath the modern economy. BASIC made early computers usable. MS DOS and Windows standardized personal computing. Office became the core productivity layer for organizations. Today, Azure is the platform that ties the company together and anchors its role in the AI era. In working through this primer, one thing became clear. Microsoft’s strategy has been consistent: build a platform, attract developers and enterprises to it, and reinvest the resulting cash flow into infrastructure that strengthens the platform. Azure is the…