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Windows Live, Bing, Xbox, Servers, Cloud Services Did you have any examples that contradicted me? All of the above are losing MS money in a BIG way.

• Locke1689 16y ago
  Um, not to get all defensive, but we at STB are making quite a bit of money. It's probably over a million a quarter per developer. I don't know many people who can say that. ;)
  • pragmatic 16y ago
    Server and Tools Business?
    • Locke1689 16y ago
      Yes.
  • megablast 16y ago
    Are you only including developers, or all the people who work on a product? I imagine that MS has a rather large team of non-developers working on products as well. You want to be careful with that metric. You know the cleaners don't make much money, why not fire them?
    • Locke1689 16y ago
      I did actually mean all the people that work in development on the product. That is, in MS terms, all SDE, SDET, and PMs. I happen to know this figure is accurate for Windows (over a million per developer), although that doesn't include sales/marketing, administrative costs, etc. As for the cleaners comment, I don't really get your point. Anyway, my statistic wasn't really meant to be taken that seriously, just proof that server is actually making money over here.