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I know, right? I was always wondering how it could be that a company which has virtually every single large corporation licencing its OS and Office products on
by turc1656 8y ago
I know, right? I was always wondering how it could be that a company which has virtually every single large corporation licencing its OS and Office products on a recurring basis, not to mention an increasing number of cloud services/storage, web servers, programming tools, and database tools could have eclipsed a company which has one main product that requires constant innovation to keep people buying.
- dotancohen 8y agoAnd government. Worldwide desktop government use of MS's operating system and office suite is above four nines. The Linux and Apple fanboys can tell you all the governments using their favorite OS as a desktop. (says the level-headed Linux fanboy)
- martin_bech 8y agoThe latter company has 3x the earnings of the former..0
- pdpi 8y agoWe can be a bit more generous than that. For the last few years, the companies at the top of the heap have all been consumer-oriented companies, and it's easy to forget that this doesn't necessarily have to always be the case. Microsoft itself is a household name for its consumer software products, so it's easy to think that their rise to the top would _have_ to be tied to consumer products too. From that perspective, these news are a bit of a head scratcher. The Surface line has been successful but not _that_ successful. Windows is as unexciting as always. The XBox isn't really a big thing outside the US. The NY Times isn't a business-centric publication, so it's pretty much a given that their audience would leave the analysis at this point. The things that make Microsoft enormous are all hidden from their view.