Subj : Re: Never do a system full update at nig
To   : Nick Andre
From : Mark Hofmann
Date : Sat Jul 17 2021 09:20:36

NA> The real moneymaker for them is Office 365 and Server/Enterprise products
NA> which have mostly been good. They pretty much wrote off the phone
NA> business.

Very true.  Microsoft makes the vast majority of their money from their cloud services, which would include O365.  Not to mention these are recurring revenue platforms which is even better for them.  Their desktop OS is lower on the priority list at this point.  I'm sure they are working on ways to pull that into the cloud and will want people to run Windows 12 via RDP in the cloud or Hyper-V.  Boot to cloud.. That would be the end of that OS.

Yeah, Microsoft tried many times to enter the phone business and failed.  I think they are done with it at this point.

I will say I am surprised just how much market share they ended up with in the cloud.  I really thought Amazon and Google would dominate and MS would get some left overs.  What kept them in play was Exchange and Active Directory and it moving to the cloud.  That started their cloud migration and is the main glue that keeps them together in the cloud space.

- Mark

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