In my experience, once organizations have enough history and size, they can't just pivot. Whatever happens within MS the organization makes it impossible for them to become anything other than what they've always been.

Their MO will always be EEE and they'll always (attempt to) abuse their monopoly power, while giving corpos and consumers just a glimmer of hope to keep them strung along...

Also any company they acquire will be gutted until it looks like the rest of the org.

>Also any company they acquire will be gutted until it looks like the rest of the org.

I'm trying to think of a Microsoft acquisition which has been a success. Nothing comes to mind.