Microsoft doesn’t need Windows anymore

[Kent Sharkey]

Computerworld[^]:

Windows now accounts for a mere 10% of the company’s revenue. You might not have seen this coming, but Microsoft did.

Because (of course) it's The Year of Linux

I am nothing if not redundantly repetitive, right?

[Nish Nishant]

Well, if someone's hosting Linux VMs on Azure, that's good revenue for Microsoft!

Regards, Nish

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[Dan Neely]

There're lots of elephant droppings in that article; X| starting back with the obfuscation that is the MS report itself. :doh: The breakdown used to write that dreck is: http://zdnet2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2016/02/25/9a7158b6-1da2-4fb6-a499-c3c5c845e249/resize/770xauto/409d179d9b08c8b84781f62d84fd42e5/msft-revenue-1601.jpg[^] Which puts consumer Windows at 10% of MS's revenue. That's not all the money they're getting from Windows (not even close). You've also got "Windows (VL) and patent licensing". The first half of that category is the copy of Windows on your work computer (unless you work for a small business). There's also "Server products, cloud services"; which includes whatever Windows server licenses you're using at work, any MS server applications (sql server, exchange, etc), and the azure cloud. The revenue picture for the latter is totally elephanteds all the way down. :rolleyes: MS is throwing in "free" Azure credits into their standard Software Assurance packages now (even if the customer says they don't want it :omg: ) and using that to allocate some of the money from the SA agreement to Azure in the hope that at free the business will decide to try it for some experimental greenfield projects at which point it'll start growing on them. (Like a fungus. - Sarcasm courtesy of a former coworker re the Office 2007 ribbon.) At the end of the day the actual amount of money they're getting from Windows is thoroughly obfuscated from everyone including most of MS; but is probably more like a quarter of the total; with office, all MS server products, all consumer products (gaming, surface, windows phone), being similar 15-25% guesstimated segments of the total.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. Y

[Marc Clifton]

Of course the other 90% of their revenue needs Windows to run. ;) Marc

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[Addicted Shrwn]

because im a linux user

[Kevin McFarlane]

Well subject headings are often hyperbolic, designed to grab attention!

Dan Neely wrote:

At the end of the day the actual amount of money they're getting from Windows is thoroughly obfuscated from everyone including most of MS; but is probably more like a quarter of the total; with office, all MS server products, all consumer products (gaming, surface, windows phone), being similar 15-25% guesstimated segments of the total.

My take is that article is saying Windows revenue per se is far less important than it used to be. But obviously Windows itself is required to sell all their other stuff. I think about a decade ago there was a three way split in revenue between Windows, Office and everything else, with profits being mostly 50-50 between Windows and Office. I assume the Windows share of profits is now much lower.

Kevin

[Dan Neely]

Yeah, MS has managed to grow a few other projects to a scale that matters to their bottom line, instead of Windows, Office, and Misc; it's Windows, Office, Server Apps, Xbox, and misc. Instead of a bipod, gone from a 3 legged stool, to a normal chair with cruft hanging down off the bottom where the seat fabric's a bit frayed. If the Surface line keeps growing in a few more years they could have a wheely chair built around 5 core business lines. :laugh:

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt