SharePoint and Exchange have now decidedly embraced the cloud.
SharePoint has embraced the cloud? As a means of delivering its boneheaded, pre-web vision of the internet as a directory of Microsoft Office documents?
Microsoft does not "embrace" any new thing. They shackle it to their last vision, so the new thing limps along dragging their old vision along with it. This way they can pretend they aren't left behind.
SharePoint killed every possibility for reasonable documentation at my company. The nontechnical employees in the company have embraced it, because it's like email they can't accidentally delete, and email attachments were their preferred means of communicating and storing documentation all along. So you upload something to SharePoint... and it's like attaching it to an email you send to the whole company! Except nobody yells at you! Now there's no going back. (They thought the wiki was too hard. Of course, if Microsoft replaced all their keyboards with a device requiring them to fart in Morse code, they would all learn it in an afternoon, and if it seemed a little unnecessarily difficult or uncomfortable, they wouldn't dare say so.)
SharePoint has embraced the cloud? As a means of delivering its boneheaded, pre-web vision of the internet as a directory of Microsoft Office documents?
Microsoft does not "embrace" any new thing. They shackle it to their last vision, so the new thing limps along dragging their old vision along with it. This way they can pretend they aren't left behind.
SharePoint killed every possibility for reasonable documentation at my company. The nontechnical employees in the company have embraced it, because it's like email they can't accidentally delete, and email attachments were their preferred means of communicating and storing documentation all along. So you upload something to SharePoint... and it's like attaching it to an email you send to the whole company! Except nobody yells at you! Now there's no going back. (They thought the wiki was too hard. Of course, if Microsoft replaced all their keyboards with a device requiring them to fart in Morse code, they would all learn it in an afternoon, and if it seemed a little unnecessarily difficult or uncomfortable, they wouldn't dare say so.)