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I don't know if it's still this way, but a decade and more ago (when I last had any professional contact with Microsoft's development) the company was effectively divided into two competing factions- the Office people and the Windows people. They had wildly different priorities for the shared tech stack, and mutually exclusive demands on the others' products, and there was a constant bun fight on who got their way. The surprising thing is, even by that era, the Office faction were the dominant one; that's where the real money was.
Then I gather the Azure faction was born and has completely dominated both, becoming a massive majority of the company's profitable business.
The gaming people (Xbox and whatnot) were always poor relations, if you're wondering, and MS R&D was its own eccentric little world which seemed to exist entirely outside of the universe inhabited by any of the others.
What cloud services, office? I find it hard to believe windows OS isn't possible
Sorry, Profitable, brain fart.
Is there a source on the OS not being profitable?
It's not that Windows isn't profitable, it's that Office is insanely profitable. There's a running joke inside MS that Office pays the bills, everything else is icing on the cake.
It's not that Windows isn't profitable, it's that Office is insanely profitable. There's a running joke inside MS that Office pays the bills, everything else is icing on the cake.
It's not that Windows isn't profitable, it's that Office is insanely profitable. There's a running joke inside MS that Office pays the bills, everything else is icing on the cake.