Windows & Xbox are like 16% of M$’s revenue, they’re not that important to the company.
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Olap@lemmy.world 18 hours agoI 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
Deceptichum@quokk.au 18 hours ago
Olap@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Exactly, both are under performing. New CEO should be fixing that
Deceptichum@quokk.au 18 hours ago
But they don’t give a shit about them, they cater to companies first and foremost.
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 7 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.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 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.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 15 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.
datavoid@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Wtf is Office?
Oh, you must mean Microsoft Copilot App
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
They are running their own schemes as of right now.
Awesomejt@lemmy.world 17 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.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 15 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.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
The AirPower would like a word.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Fair.