Vertical integration, though. Windows underpins office, and even cloud services.
Xbox though, they’ve already pretty much written its epitaph.
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reddig33@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
- cloud services exceeded $75 billion
- Office productivity software and LinkedIn, delivered $33.11 billion in revenue
- Personal Computing unit, which encompasses Windows, search advertising, devices and video games, totaled $13.45 billion
Writing is on the wall. Xbox and Windows made money, but a fraction of what Office and enterprise services made.
RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Isn’t Linux mostly used for cloud services though?
RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I have no statistics, but my sense is that most orgs still depend on Active Directory, Sharepoint, and other services that are Windows-based and often hosted on the company’s cloud structure. And Azure itself is fundamentally a Windows service.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/…/4282201
Linux has become the most popular operating system on Azure as over 60% of customer cores run Linux-based workloads.
Even on Microsoft Azure they mostly use Linux
jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Xbox is actively being dropped from Target and Walmart, but it doesn’t help that the push is for digital games with no physical presence in stores.
Ugurcan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Xbox should’ve been the prestige product for Microsoft (just like Logic/Final Cut for Apple) but Xbox itself depleted any prestige it ever had over the last few years.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
its like what AWS for amazon, its delivery/online market pale in comparison to thier licensing to the govt and other services.
voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
That is how it has been for a long time at Microsoft. They know Enterprise is where the money is, it hasn’t stopped them from trying to venture out into other areas tho.
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They stopped venturing a long time ago. Microsoft should’ve been split up. Then maybe some of their consumer products would’ve survived and thrived.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Wait until Windows SE (subscription edition) comes out and you have to pay for it monthly… that’ll get those numbers up!
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I dunno. MS has become such a behemoth that us home users suffer nothing these days. Apparently they can pay enough, and enough workers, to keep consumer Windows alive. Why kill the golden goose? As to Office, that requires the bigger goose to run on top of.
Always an unpopular take around here, but I don’t have 1/20th the issues lemmy tells me I should be enduring under Windows 11. No telling how old my install is. Started with Win10, years and years ago, swapped SSDs a time or two. Only reason I reboot is when the power blinks. (need a new UPS battery)
This from a guy that reinstalled Windows weekly in the 90s. Meh. Works fine now.