An observation that I've made is that people disregard Microsoft as if they've crossed over from some alternate universe where Windows isn't the predominant operating system on both desktops and servers, and Azure isn't the second biggest public cloud platform.

I regularly see comments like: "The public clouds providers like Amazon, Google, and I suppose even Oracle".

It's kind of hilarious to see people just skip over the second biggest company in the world like it doesn't even exist in their minds.