• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    8 days ago

    I saw in a recent Youtube video that between web services and AI, Windows licencing is only about 10% of Microslop’s business.

    That’s correct. Here’s some data on Microsoft’s revenue:

    40%     Server Products and Cloud Services
    22%     Office Products and Cloud Services
    10%     Windows
     9%     Gaming
     7%     LinkedIn
     5%     Search and News Advertising
    

    IDK if that number is true, but it sure would explain how much they’ve put into user experience.

    It does but it’s really short-sighted from MS’s part. Sure, Windows might be only 10% of its business, but the other 90% heavily rely on it. Or rather on Windows being a monopoly on desktop OSes; without that people Windows servers, Office and MS “cloud services” (basically: we shit on your computer so much you need to use ours) wouldn’t see the light of the day.

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      8 days ago

      Azure has support for Linux servers. They’ve even made an effort to port Dotnet to Linux. A majority of their cloud infrastructure is Linux it seems.

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        8 days ago

        I had to dig through their annual report to find it:

        Server products and cloud services revenue growth

        Revenue from Server products and cloud services, including Azure and other cloud services; SQL Server, Windows Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (“CALs”); and Nuance and GitHub

        So it includes Windows Server, but it’s way more than just that.