Comment on Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020

Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• kek@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This would be great, but unfortunately would not make number go up. That is all they care about now.

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  • Olap@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I dunno. Windows 11 sales have been crap. People aren’t buying new machines due to it. Relaunch 12 as privacy focussed, AI enabled (but optional), and they could see a bounce. Double down on Office, keep a steady improvement on Azure, and see Xbox as a growth opportunity. Microsoft could avoid the AI slump

    Notice how Apple have not jumped all in. They are anticipating the storm and are well prepared to weather it out

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    • Awesomejt@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Apple did jump in but then backed out once it was clear their offering wasn’t even close to the competition. Remember their big push on Apple Intelligence and how most of the features they promised never materialised?

      While the back-peddalling was embarrassing at the time, I agree that their cautious approach since will probably work out better than Microsoft going forward.

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      • peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If I had to guess, at least in the past, Apple has typically listened to its engineers. Maybe not as well as like Valve.

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Windows & Xbox are like 16% of M$’s revenue, they’re not that important to the company.

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      • Olap@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Exactly, both are under performing. New CEO should be fixing that

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      • RamRabbit@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Windows is a core driver of many of the other services. Linux certainly isn’t pushing OneDrive ads and Copilot ads like Windows is. Hell, Microsoft doesn’t even make a OneDrive Linux GUI for some reason. Their share on Linux is probably trash. The more people switch, the more those customers move to Dropbox or w/e.

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    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Windows 11 sales have been crap. People aren’t buying new machines due to it.

      Wait until new computers quadruple in price because of data center demands, driven by idiotic AI initiatives nobody wants, and nobody buys new computers.

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    • jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The reality is, and I say this with a heavy heart, that Crapple is ahead of everyone else in how to keep the money and stock prices moving in their favor. They ‘rent’ AI capabilities from OpenAI and Google and put their money where they always have, making new devices, some good developing and fucking over everyone in their walled garden. Microslop, on the other hand, has completely lost its north.

      Full disclosure, I fucking hate Crapple almost as much as I hate Microslop, but they evidently know what they’re doing. How long they can keep their shit up is another conversation for another time.

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    • datavoid@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wtf is Office?

      Oh, you must mean Microsoft Copilot App

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They are running their own schemes as of right now.

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  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sorry you’re right, number MUST GO UP /s.

    sigh.

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• Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Or double down on AI. Then double down even harder.

  • Make the use of Copilot mandatory; simultaneously heavily monetize it to instantly turn the AI division into a profit center.
  • To that end release the successor to Windows 11, a cloud-only offering that replaces the taskbar with a Copilot instance which launches programs for the user. Downplay any accusations that the new Windows Live 365 With Copilot is just a rental Windows 11 with the taskbar hastily hacked out.
  • Don’t forget that Windows Live 365 With Copilot does not include a subscription for Copilot, which must be booked separately.
  • Get all of your customers to switch by immediately dropping support for all previous Windows versions, “migrating” their support windows over to Windows Live 365 With Copilot. Corporate customers, which have gone all-in on Azure, will need years to migrate off the Windows ecosystem, which means excellent short-term revenue.
  • Make sure that Windows Live 365 With Copilot can only save to OneDrive to make it maximally hard for those customers to get their data out.
  • Hope that the current world order disintegrates before the massive exodus of customers ruins the company.
  • Whether or not it does, turn off your business phone and spend the next five years doing massive amounts of cocaine on a private island in the South Pacific.

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  • Dayroom7485@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A business plan to rally the crowds behind 💸

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  • wibble@reddthat.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Solid business plan. Would implement

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Their core users are corporations, not personal households.

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  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Depends on your definition of “users”. If “user” means “source of personal information to train AI models” then households absolutely are users. I guess we’re entering a world where different users do different things for a company like Microsoft: Corporations buy licenses for OS and software, households and individuals provide data to train the AI products that permeate it all.

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• anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wonder how well a project to secure windows 7 and provide 3rd party security patches would do financially. Whichever country grows the balls to ignore the DMCA could do it and make a lot of people happy.

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  • Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Very few people would use it. You’d have all the issues of Linux where very little is made for the OS, so community made ports would be the only way to get things running. Those downsides are counteracted by the upside of Windows… which is what?

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      DirectX I guess. I don’t know I haven’t owned a windows box since 2006 or so, and I found that one literally in someone’s trash. Still had their wedding photos on it and everything.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  8 was better than 7.

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  • TBi@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No. 8.1 maybe. But not 8

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Both because of Metro.

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      • TBi@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I remember 8 being a cluster fuck. But 8.1 was ok.

        I had a windows phone at the time. Those were great.

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