The cloud stuff, especially Azure, is Microsoft at their best - and Nadella having come from that part of the business is what preserves hope for the long run.<p>The reason for this is MS are on the backfoot, but instead of playing defensively they've gone all out to hit every selling point their competition have, and then add their own stuff too, while leveraging what is quite a lot of existing small and medium business lockin to migrate over to the cloud as appropriate. Many people (myself included) thought Amazon, Rackspace etc. would prevent this from working, but they've done it really well.<p>I've also seen a lot of companies move to Office 365, when previously they'd have gone with Google Docs. They seem to have prevented that threat from getting much further too.