And what's that catalyst going to be? What they do, they do really well, or actually, I should say what they do, they do well enough, right? Because they make sure that businesses have tools to do their business on, but they're probably not, like, the thing that makes you fall in love with technology.
You know, if you look at Slack, Slack came on like gangbusters, and people who used it loved it. But, ultimately, it looks like Microsoft Teams is winning out, and that's because it's free. So that's Microsoft's MO, good tools at relatively great prices. I'm not good at forecasting that, but we'll just say between now and three years, maybe three years.
I haven't played a video game-- you should know-- since Donkey Kong, and I'm talking the first iteration of Donkey Kong. There are people who say maybe they should get rid of the Xbox side of the business.
What would you say to those people? So what I think Xbox does is it allows them to experiment in some of the farther-out-there technologies and then roll them into the business applications.
It's almost like a proving ground of technology. So I say let them keep it. It's incrementally beneficial to them, and it certainly is a good testbed for the next-generation technology. If it's something like CRM, Salesforce, maybe. It depends on how much you're running your business off of it, what is the pain point to stay, and what's the pain point to leave.
And I don't think anybody-- well, maybe-- maybe one of you is old enough to remember this, whenever we had different, like, spreadsheet programs and somebody would send you a Word Perfect thing. It's horrible. It doesn't work. So as long as they're not too egregious about their price increases, companies will stay there because it's just too expensive to move off of it. I think at that point, we're going to call it a wrap, but I want to give you last word. Is it to pick up the pace of growth in Azure?
Or is it going to be something they're working on that hasn't gotten much attention? But for the just daily grind, I really see them just continuing to perform well. Their switch away from what Steve Ballmer was doing there is trying to make them the center of the world is-- is not going to ever work for them.
And they are playing well with others, other hardware. And they are owning the internet first, mobile first, and it's still working for them. So I think a little stealth, maybe something exciting coming in, I don't know. Maybe some kind of virtual-- a better version of Zoom maybe or Skype, I could see that. But I think just doing what they're doing is sufficient for growth at this point. We want to let you know that Kim Forrest is Bokeh Capital Partners' founder and chief investment officer.
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