• It talks about five things Redmond doesn't want you to know, and the first item is that the cloud is first. New releases of products will likely come in the cloud first, and in a version you can buy second. The article mentions Sharepoint, but many other Microsoft products live in the cloud, including SQL Server.

    Is that a bad thing?

    Depends on what new features / functionality that is included I would say. If it's something you really want then it can be annoying.

    I however fear that support for non cloud based solutions will become worse because of the cloud focus. Hopefully this fear is not warranted.