@cjd >Microsoft is one of the few tech companies which never ended up with their heads in their asses.
microsoft has their heads deep up their asses from the very start, but idiots keep giving them money, no matter how many times they get burned.

>First they sold PCs with Windows and made a ton of money.
microsoft didn't sell the PCs - the computer manufacturers were the ones who paid the fortunes for the "windows licenses" to put windows on the computers and passed that along to the suckers.

>Then they sold enterprise shit to big companies and governments.
Yes, that shit operates like shit, but companies and governments keep coming back no matter the fortune cost and the 3rd degree burns.

>Now they're building more datacenters than Amazon, they're cooling them by submerging the servers in non-conductive refrigerant that boils at the server operating temperature, and they're hosting basically everyone in the AI space.
Of course they now have enough experience to really excel in wastefulness and degeneracy.