Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform
mephiska@lemmy.world 1 day agoThey can’t even make money with their AI, they only survive off the windows OEM licenses, Office 365 subs that businesses are locked into and their backend server and sql stuff. That’s enough to make them a walking dead for a long time.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
And eventually companies will hopefully start cancelling those subscriptions to move to Open Office or Libre Office.
France is already starting that push by having government departments transition first, and are projected to save millions of euros in licensing fees each year. Once you get a critical mass of users on libre software, it’ll hopefully spread on its own