Microsoft shows how a suite-based approach allows them to be well positioned in multiple eras.

Which products in the suite are the most important changes, and new ones are added and the suite evolves in a new direction, but at every point the internal logic of the suite makes sense and new building blocks can be spun up for the new thing.

Microsoft is all about the suite being more important than any individual product.

This has allowed them to be well positioned in a number of successive eras; they can parlay that modular suite advantage and evolve what is in the suite and what the emphasis is more easily than they could evolve a single product.

Another example of the more resilience and adaptability that comes from a modular system than a monolithic one.