Πολλοί λένε ότι η νέα Microsoft είναι μια εντελώς νέα εταιρεία υπό την καθοδήγηση του CEO Satya Nadella, καθώς δείχνει να είναι πιο φιλικός και πιο συνεργατικός με αντίπαλες εταιρείες 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 βάση (όπως η περίπτωση του 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 one such episode that took place during duration of the Code Conference on Monday, explaining that he had been invited by Microsoft president John Thompson to a meeting with Microsoft cloud chief Scott Guthrie to discuss becoming an Azure customer.
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 eventually became Amazon Web's customer Services, which is a direct competitor to Microsoft Azure, and continues the fight against Microsoft, trying to block its takeover LinkedIn, με την αιτιολογία ότι το Redmond could limit access to data trafficked by 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.
