Publicly traded companies have to continually make more money than they did last month, last quarter, same time last year.
Failing to do so means they are somehow “losing” money that is “rightfully owed” to them and the stock market punishes them.
It doesn’t matter if you’re profitable or not, so long as you’re continually making more money.
At what point will we look at these numbers with skepticism? When not one worker is left who can afford their services nor one customer left who wants anything to do with their utterly shit “products” - but they still blow out the quarter with 100 billion? At what point will society recognize that this money can’t possibly represent anything actually real? Will it matter if all of us starve to death and only billionaires are left if the Microsofts of the world will still be able to post 200 billion dollar “profits”?
I’m actually curious. Because I personally think that’s increasingly what all this is. Fake as shit. Some combination of algorithms, cryptocurrency, dark pools and I dunno, the Illuminati I guess.
Business contracts and licenses are MS’s bread and butter. They don’t give a shit about individuals, they know we pirate Windows, and they don’t care. But if a business pirates Windows…
The money is real. Perhaps you don’t work somewhere that pays to use Microsoft Enterprise services, but there are many and a lot are huge. Those companies build and/or do tangible things that others or consumers buy.
Big companies are subject to constant audits. You, too, can check their balance sheets that are released and scrutinize the numbers.
While you may personally dislike MS products, most of the world’s businesses and governments run on them. That’s licensing money every month without fail. They can literally charge whatever they want because companies with staff want Office and Windows Server backend.
Take note. It’s never enough, no matter how much you give.
Do more with less.
In good times and bad.
Work your wage.
- cloud services exceeded $75 billion
- Office productivity software and LinkedIn, delivered $33.11 billion in revenue
- Personal Computing unit, which encompasses Windows, search advertising, devices and video games, totaled $13.45 billion
Writing is on the wall. Xbox and Windows made money, but a fraction of what Office and enterprise services made.
Vertical integration. Windows underpins Office, and even cloud services.
Xbox though, they’ve already pretty much written its epitaph.
Xbox should’ve been the prestige product for Microsoft (just like Logic/Final Cut for Apple) but Xbox itself depleted any prestige it ever accumulated over the last few years.
Xbox is actively being dropped from Target and Walmart, but it doesn’t help that the push is for digital games with no physical presence in stores.
I call for employees to tell their employers to FTFO.
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