Our real challenge is not from our competitors, but to really understand what users want

David Vaskevitch, Microsoft's CTO, is the man responsible for the long term vision of the Company with the greatest impact on the world of computing *, when times were different. Windows was still a nice application that resided on DOS. Applications such as email, automatic Internet access, search engines and the term .net were very far from the planning schedules of the Company's leadership. about the way to access enterprise data located on a central server through enterprise networks) and became the general manager of enterprise computing at Microsoft.I was told there that Microsoft is currently 'only suppliers', that is, China Telecom does not run its core infrastructures with our platforms. In the coming century, most companies will have obsolete equipment that they will want to replace. Our opportunity is to build applications that will be much easier to develop and replace. And if we succeed, we will enter the third phase of our enterprise plan. We will know that we have completed the third phase, not when we are the biggest in terms of revenues or customers, but when customers say "you are not only a supplier, but a partner". However, Vaskevitch's vision, which looked ahead 10 years to penetration of the enterprise market, succeeded rather well, and today the picture is different. But for Vaskevitch, "We are almost never first on the market, but when we enter the market, we build a system that offers a solution for everyone, not only a closed system. So, that when we have addressed a system, it is really usable, as was the case with the Internet, for example. When we entered the arena, we made the Internet connection transparent to users.this is only the base, his vision is completely different.However, time has passed. an interview with Globes, he talks about the Company's plans for enterprise computing.