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Post by johnnyanmac »

killerstorm wrote: post #461
natas wrote: post #383

I recently had dinner in Bellevue with an individual who holds a relatively senior position within Microsoft’s executive leadership. During our conversation, she emphasized repeatedly that Microsoft does not primarily view its offerings as consumer products. According to her, the company’s leadership is strongly focused on B2B strategy, with revenue growth driven mainly by Azure, AI, and enterprise solutions. Her per…

Is this a joke? IBM market cap is 225B, Microsoft market cap is 2.9T. IBM literally lost its matket to Microsoft in 80s and 90s specifically because it was too focused on enterprise...

Microslop got a much bigger market capture before pivoting to B2B as its focus. It could shift because it feels its too entrenched in society, so not much is needed to maintain the safe revenue stream.

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Post by jasomill »

RachelF wrote: post #405
TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #403

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've said this for years. The amount of money Microsoft makes from the OS apart from corporations is a rounding error. What little they do make is from preinstalled systems, and, honestly, when was the last time you knew someone that went out and bought a Windows-based computer for anything other than gaming? I don't need a quote from someone high up in the company to know they couldn't care less how upset people are…

>The amount of money Microsoft makes from the OS apart from corporations is a rounding error. Yes, if you analyse revenue (not profit), sales of Windows count 9% of the total. Microsoft makes around the same percentage from LinkedIn and Xbox as they do from Windows sales. Cloud is by far the the biggest contributor to revenue.

Beverages and pet food combined make up almost half of Nestlé's sales, with chocolate at around 7.6%. But I certainly wouldn't consider almost $9 billion in chocolate sales per year a rounding error.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by jasomill »

bombcar wrote: post #221
dec0dedab0de wrote: post #176

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I used M$ at work the other day by accident, I was like ooh wait this isn't turn of the century slashdot.

From my parent's home in Wyoming I stab at thee! https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22/m

Reminds me of how, whenever I see a comment on an Internet forum where someone writes "u" and "ur" for "you" and "you are", I naturally read it phonetically as "ooh" and "urr", and it sounds a bit like the style of language traditionally used in fiction to represent the primitive speech of cavepeople, and I imagine the author typing the comment using the numeric pad on a turn-of-the-century Nokia candybar phone (though even those had autocomplete).

And never forget the fabled alot:

https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-bette...

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Post by GuB-42 »

darth_avocado wrote: post #454
dajt wrote: post #435

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That's been obvious for years. It feels like they're extracting whatever remaining money they can get from the home PC market while it lasts but won't much miss it when it's gone. I'm surprised they haven't given up on xbox and games but perhaps there's enough money there to keep it going.

> home PC market while it lasts Tinfoil hat thought: Microsoft only focuses on B2B and not consumer market, because they make it so that consumers can only rent from Microsoft and other businesses, not actually own anything. That way, Microsoft can keep jacking up prices as they see fit.

If Microsoft wanted to be monopolistic, and it wouldn't be the first time, then why are they abandoning their strongest exclusives (Windows, Office) and instead enter a more competitive market, where Google, Amazon, etc... are well established and with no sign of letting go.

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Post by grayhatter »

tredre3 wrote: post #395
isodev wrote: post #136

This just means I'm going to say microslop in random places - documents, slides, emails and Teams chats. "Copilot 365" is welcome to give me a red squigly all it wants.

Feel free to say microslop as much as possible, but it should be noted that many people will automatically dismiss your opinion when you do. I don't know if I agree with doing so or not, but it is more common than you'd think. And no, they aren't just microsoft shills.

I however will understand that he's frustrated with being disrespected by software and/or companies. And will be more likely to respect his opinion.

For most people the point is to be respected by people who's opinion you value. Which is often distinctly different from the opinion of genpop.

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Post by Manuel_D »

matthewfcarlson wrote: post #397
x0x0 wrote: post #392

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I think they (and even Apple) are going to get a walloping from mostly ceding the education market to chromebooks. Kids are growing up using them.

It's interesting to me as well as an ex-microsofter who worked on surface devices. Leadership (at least below the VP level) knew they were getting killed by Chromebooks and tried a few times to get a low cost device (Surface Go 1/2 for example) that ran a slimmed down version of windows (Windows S?). It tries to be more like chrome OS (hard to mess up, easy to flatten and restore a fresh OS on) but kind of just throw…

There's a growing set of ARM windows laptops that might bite into the Chromebook market. The surface laptop 7 is pretty nice and comes in both large(ish) 15 inch and small 13.8 inch form factors.

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Post by permo-w »

razorfen wrote: post #440
dajt wrote: post #435

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's been obvious for years. It feels like they're extracting whatever remaining money they can get from the home PC market while it lasts but won't much miss it when it's gone. I'm surprised they haven't given up on xbox and games but perhaps there's enough money there to keep it going.

Their new appointment of leader for their Xbox group suggests that they intend to wind down that business unit in time. The founder of the Xbox team has commented that he believes it’s the beginning of the end for Xbox, for the exact reasons of this thread.

Which is odd because the major reason Xbox is petering out is because it's been completely mismanaged. Sony and Nintendo are still doing just fine. Nintendo even had a dodgy console that no one bought within relatively recent memory. Xbox messed up with the One and then have just failed to get back on track. It's not like the industry is dying.

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Post by cyanydeez »

ForOldHack wrote: post #450
golddust-gecko wrote: post #412

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This is 100% true. You might wonder why, if businesses are the target, why not just make Windows a no-frills, solid base for the other offerings? Why slop it up? The answer there is cultural. Windows needs a large team just to keep supporting it at scale. All those engineers and PMs need career paths, and shiny things with which to sway their managers into promoting them. The strong, experienced, leaders have largely…

"So you end up with B players promoting C players for slop." Micro-slop(tm).

Micro-slop promoting nano-slop polishing pico-slop

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Post by upmind »

dessimus wrote: post #112
petepete wrote: post #66

Why is Microsoft using Discord and not Teams?

So non-employees join and provide free support to other users without having to pay them.

Discord really needs some enterprise plan. I've been saying this for years, they can take down slack.
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