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I’ve installed Windows 10 Pro 1803 on two separate machines in the last month. Both with local accounts.
Could this be a Pro vs Home thing?
I'm puzzled why "Proven"s comment is dead? What they wrote seems accurate. There is no reason why this comment should be downvoted, and certainly no reason why the comment should be dead. This is what they wrote: Simply speaking they actually make more products people like to use. Google essentially has just one, and it’s based on diminishing user privacy to the maximum extent possible. MS collects user data but so d…
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LibreOffice is now an excellent alternative for both business and home use.
Is it really? I have occasionally tried open office and clones for a very long time and "adequate alternative" was the best impression I ever got and far from the worst.
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While I agree with most of your points, this one seems arguable: > Microsoft Excel remains the default lingua franca of business. Google Docs and Spreadsheets has not replaced Office. Google Docs, Sheets and Slides have taken over the education market from elementary school through college, and for many businesses Google's offerings have become interchangeable with Microsoft's. Outlook and Excel still have a strong h…
LibreOffice is now an excellent alternative for both business and home use.
Teaching users who are not great with computers and who know modern excel how to use some 1999-era LibreOffice Calc software is not fun. LibreOffice recreates the worst parts of menu/modal hell and it's not a place the modern user is good at navigating.
In every case I recommend Google Sheets over Calc these days. So much easier to teach, more intuitive design, and more simply interoperable with the outside world.
I think most people really don’t understand the wide breadth and the real market of Microsoft as compared to other companies. Just look at these charts of income sources of each company: http://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/cotd52602.png Google is literally just Ads whereas Microsoft is very evenly spread. If it lost one area itd be fine in the others. I think people have an exposure bias where they can onl…
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Give Google a little more credit. They have 7 separate products with over 1 billion users each [0]. Search, Gmail, Android, Chrome, Maps, Youtube and the Google Play Store. [0]: https://www.popsci.com/google-has-7-products-with-1-billion-...
The stock market doesn't care about users, it cares about profits. Android and Chrome and Google Play are unprofitable.
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> Google Play are unprofitable. ??? https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/05/app-revenue-climbed-35-per... $20B in revenue.
sales != revenue. with the 30% commission, it would be at most $6B. From http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/01/technology/google-earnings/i... : > Alphabet posted nearly $15 billion in sales for the year from Google's "other revenues," which include cloud services and hardware products, like the Pixel phones and Google Home smart speakers.
I think you're getting at what is sometimes called "cost of revenue" and "net revenue" for businesses where it's important to report on sales channel costs.
Google doesn't break down the Play Store revenues this way, but for advertising there's a similar dynamic at play where it's "revenue" and "traffic acquisition costs"
Alphabet includes Google but also all their other companies. I wonder how many of these included companies are not profitable entities at the moment but future investments and dragged Alphabet's value down a bit.
I don't know. I'm just sayin'.
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The stock market doesn't care about users, it cares about profits. Android and Chrome and Google Play are unprofitable.
It costs like ten dollars sometimes to rent a movie that probably costs them $0.30 to stream to me, they gotta be making some money
Many people don't realise it because almost all of them are available for free. Google products have very market.
Incase of Google, they have cost of maintenance almost for every product they develop.
But in case of Microsoft, they have less overhead.
Windows (client) Azure (servers) Xbox (client) Visual studio (client) Visual studio code (client) SQL (client) MS Office (client) ...
Microsoft also needs to push updates but, less than that of Google.
YouTube consumes too much of bandwidth, Same is the case with Play Store.