Microsoft, Linux, OSS, Cloud and DevOps

Editor's Notes

• #4: There have been various computer-driven revolutions in the past: the widespread introduction of the personal computer (PC) was one, the invention of the graphical browser was another, and the Internet yet another. There have also been computer eras where one type of computer has dominated, having straightforward implications for whether the computers were shared or personal, and for whether they were specialized commodities or not (see diagram below). But the ways computers have altered our lives, all aspects of our lives, is more comprehensive than, at first blush, recollections of these technological revolutions or eras might suggest. Computers affect how we undertake the most prosaic of activities – from buying food to paying our bills – and they do so in ways we might not have imagined when the first personal computers arrived on our desks. They have also created wholly new experiences, for example, allowing us to inhabit virtual worlds with people from many different parts of the globe. In between these extremes, from the prosaic to the wholly new, computers have taken over from older technologies in ways that looked merely like substitution at first but which have ended up creating radical change. Computers have played a massive role in changing the way we live over the last couple of decades. They are no longer possessions of the privileged but are rapidly becoming inexpensive, everyday commodities. They have evolved from being isolated machines to globally interconnected devices. Not only has access to computers vastly increased, but the ways we interact with them and materials used for computer devices have changed too. All of this means that computers can now be interwoven with almost every aspect of our lives. As we move towards 2020, so the extent of these changes will increase. By 2020, it may not be possible to realize all of our goals, ambitions and aspirations without using a computer or computing in one way or another. This binding of computing to our daily activities will in turn affect our values, goals and aspirations.
• #10: 229% increase in just 4 years
• #14: Context, motivation and vision come from the top, but there are still barriers to overcome all the way down. Another example: in a recent company meeting, Satya said that improving our engineering systems is more important than adding new features. (Can we get the exact quote?)
• #28: So does TFS
• #29: All the builds you need, using the power of Azure you get one service that gives you unlimited build minutes where you can build on Windows Mac and Linux in parallel using a single build YAML file.