Many say that the new Microsoft is a completely new one company υπό την καθοδήγηση του CEO Satya Nadella, as he appears to be friendlier and more cooperative with opponents Companies και πλατφόρμες που δεν συνεργαζόταν η εταιρεία. Αναφέρουν επίσης ότι η εταιρεία φαίνεται να μην ενδιαφέρεται πλέον για τα βρώμικα κόλπα που χρησιμοποιούσε για να αυξήσει την πελατειακή της base (like the case of Scroogled a campaign started by Steve Ballmer).
However, according to Salesforce CEO of Salesforce Marc Benioff, the new Microsoft is no different from the old Microsoft, as the company continues to use some challenging strategies for its rivals.
Benioff revealed such an episode during the Code Conference on Monday explaining that he had been invited by Microsoft President John Thompson to a meeting with Microsoft's cloud manager Scott Guthrie to discuss becoming Azure customers .
The message was: "Why haven't you met Scott Guthrie?" It uses Azure and could guide your business, and maybe we could make Salesforce run on Azure "… and I thought OK, it was clear that someone who was not in our business was running Azure", (emphasis added) ours).
But a few weeks after that, Benioff was informed by the press that Guthrie was promoted as the head of the CRM business, thus being a direct competitor of Salesforce.
"I came to the conclusion that the new Microsoft is actually the old Microsoft. "And these little things, like the one I mentioned, if we put it all together, I don't feel like the new Microsoft is what we were looking for," Benioff said.
Salesforce was eventually made the customer of Amazon Web Services, a direct competitor of Microsoft Azure, and continues the fight against Microsoft, trying to prevent LinkedIn from being acquired, on the grounds that Redmond could restrict access to traffic data from the social service.
Salesforce has already contacted European regulators to block the agreement, but there is still a lot to be done.
Let us remind you that a few days ago, CEO of Kaspersky, filed a lawsuit about how Microsoft works, trying to exterminate any competitor.