Chapter 986: Yahoo Cloud Business

Microsoft Bing has no hope of success under the pressure of Google and Yahoo, so investors have objected to Microsoft's retention of the Bing search business after Microsoft abandoned the Nokia brand and Stephen Elop left.

"What is the value of this search engine that costs a lot of money, continues to lose money, and has no hope of success?"

"Relying on the existence of the Win10 operating system, Bing can maintain a market share that will not be lower than a certain value, but is it really necessary for Microsoft to be a search engine......?

"The reason for Bing's existence is that it doesn't make sense, or let's see Microsoft's failure in the Internet space!"

"Skype is better than Bing!"

"Cheng Shouzong doesn't seem to know what to do when he leaves Yahoo, in fact, Microsoft should dig Zhou Shi the most, as long as he is there, Microsoft's future is not a problem!"

"Zhou Shi joined Microsoft, this joke is not funny at all!"

"He is the first billionaire in human history, why did Microsoft invite him"

"Zhou Shi is not only a billionaire, but also the first billionaire to donate hundreds of billions of dollars in assets, and the youngest one. ”

There was a lot of disturbance on the Internet, Chen Shouzong's life at Microsoft was not easy, he wanted to give up the Bing business, but he didn't know how. Or in the past few years, he has begun to give up, Bing's investment has been decreasing year by year, and the company's attention to this team has also decreased a lot. Most people acquiesce to this phenomenon, except that Microsoft Windows needs a search engine. It is believed that in the near future, Yahoo Search will be able to cooperate with Microsoft and become their home search technology provider.

And Chen Shouzong's crisis is not only that, losing an important means of checks and balances, Microsoft cloud computing and Satya Nadella have more room to maneuver.

However, Zhou Shi is not without ways to curb them, DingTalk's success on the mobile terminal not only provides cloud office applications similar to Office365, but also helps enterprises grow and digitally transform through the perfect integration of CRM and ERP through the DingTalk app store.

If an enterprise deploys a complete CRM system and all business processes are covered, what DingTalk does is to help them improve the last mile, that is, to promote it to every employee at low cost. Undoubtedly, this reduces the attractiveness and presence of Microsoft Dynamics 365.

Yahoo or DingTalk not only offers these services, but also value-added big data and visual analytics technologies, and if necessary, can even acquire established cloud CRM and ERP technologies and companies in the market. Artificial intelligence and big data analysis are still very attractive to public cloud and digital office.

The development advantage of Microsoft Cloud Computing Business in Office365 is unstoppable, which is their biggest source of profits, Microsoft Azure public cloud business because of Microsoft's long-term reputation and software ecology, a large number of software are developed based on Windows system, Microsoft has an innate success gene. Then there's Dynamics 365, which is not only competing with Saif's salesforetSuite, but there are more SaaS startups in the market, and even Yahoo can launch more SaaS services of its own to meet the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Zhou Shi is attacking Microsoft Dynamics 365, a product that sits in the middle of Microsoft's cloud business. Hopefully, the failure of this product will have a negative impact on Microsoft Azure.

At the same time, in the IaaS industry, Amazon Cloud, Time Cloud go hand in hand, and they are all closed public clouds, Microsoft Azure is also a closed public cloud, although Yahoo has gone out of its own way, but it still originates from OpenStack, which is higher than OpenStack's open source cloud computing platform.

Yahoo and Google are both supporters of open source, especially Yahoo, even MIPS has been open-sourced, deep learning frameworks have also been open-sourced, and open-source cloud computing platforms are not a big deal, which has a strong attraction to many literary and idealistic IT elites. Of course, this is not the most important thing in the development of public cloud, and the relatively convenient migration ability of open source cloud computing is the key to attracting users. More autonomy, at least on the surface, open source clouds have more autonomy.

Let Amazon AWS and Time Cloud become opponents, let Microsoft Azure become opponents of Yahoo Cloud, forcibly lower the level of competition of each other, and then use open source and closed source to promote, in short, while giving yourself more professionalism, it will drag down the development of Microsoft Azure. After all, Yahoo's artificial intelligence is the world's leading, which is a recognized fact, DingTalk is becoming more and more powerful, able to meet the needs of most small and medium-sized enterprises, and Yahoo Cloud still has the opportunity to keep pace with Amazon AWS and Time Cloud.

Zhou Shi worked hard, Microsoft's strength made many of his initiatives actually did not have much effect, and Dynamics 365 may not have much reference value and influence in the user's choice of Microsoft Azure. But things always have to be done, the market is so big, since there is no first-mover advantage, can not swim in a blue ocean, then only by hitting competitors and making them weaker, can they have a chance. Microsoft quickly occupied a space of its own in Amazon's competition, that is, it paid a huge price to dig out some specific customers with huge influence, such as Wal-Mart, and directly hit Amazon to have a huge reputation and influence. Yahoo may not be able to do what Microsoft can do, but the confidence to defeat its opponents is still to be preserved.

Of course, the development of Yahoo Cloud can not completely rely on crooked ways, first of all, it is very important to prove that you are excellent, most of Yahoo's websites and applications have been migrated to Yahoo Cloud, and the stable and secure environment has been well verified in Yahoo Pass, LinkedIn, DingTalk, and Toutiao, which has played a good advertising effect. Hulu, a video website supported by Hollywood's six major companies, Lyft, a ride-hailing app, Reddit, the nation's largest community, and Yahoo subsidiaries Yelp and Airbnb have all proven the stability and security of Yahoo Cloud. Therefore, it has been favored by many enterprises, including many financial enterprises. After all, the development of Yahoo's intelligent risk control, robo-advisory and other financial technologies has also attracted a lot of attention.

In fact, because of Zhou Shi's participation, Yahoo advocated open computing projects, developed Yahoo Brain, acquired and open-sourced MIPS, acquired DeepMind, had Alpha Dog, invested in AMD, and had the eye-catching Zen architecture, all of which are promoting Yahoo's technical strength to the outside world. This is a world-class Internet technology company! Yes, Yahoo is a top Internet company!

Best-in-class companies can naturally earn respect, and Zhou Shi's legendary life will also win Yahoo an extra bonus. The development of Yahoo Cloud is not as difficult as Zhou Shi imagined. At least, at least, Yahoo Cloud won't be worse than Google Cloud. And Google Cloud's business is just getting started, and they have nothing but abundant funds......