• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    • 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.

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      Vertical integration. Windows underpins Office, and even cloud services.

      Xbox though, they’ve already pretty much written its epitaph.

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        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.

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        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.