Re: May they get their wish
"Microsoft, the VW family sedan of IT, wants to be tech's new Rolls-Royce"
They're already like the other part or Rolls-Royce, the bit making jet engines: sucking and blowing at the same time. They even had a database engine ominously called Jet, which very appropriately caused anything odd getting in to it get utterly shredded, or have the engine itself disintegrate most spectacularly.