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Microsoft is killing it in all businesses except for one

13 points by whack 7y ago

amingilani 7y ago
> Microsoft was led by stellar results in the Azure cloud computing, LinkedIn and cloud-software segments, with only one laggard: The Xbox gaming business and its related services. The title should be changed to Microsoft is killing it in all businesses except for Xbox gaming, IMHO. Edit: I meant on HN, since the guidelines say: "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait"
- tehabe 7y ago
  If that would be the headline, there would be no reason at all to click on the story.
  - hpen 7y ago
    Except if you're actually interested in the story?
    - frereubu 7y ago
      If you're interested in the details, surely telling people that Xbox is the one which isn't "killing it" isn't going to stop them clicking on the link?
  - mc32 7y ago
    I think I’d agree with you if it were an offline medium like a magazine or newspaper, or an online subscription where they’ve already captured revenue and it doesn’t matter if you follow through reading or not. But if it’s ad-based then I think a bit of a tease is okay. This isn’t classical click bait. I think it’s okay.
  - deleted 7y ago
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  - gumby 7y ago
    IIMHO if the title tells you everything about the story, it's not much of a story. In this case there was a lot in the story but not stuff I cared about so the title would have sufficed. I really hate clicking on a title and reading what amounts to a single-sentence article padded out.
- Traster 7y ago
  And for those out of the loop, Microsoft announced a new Xbox at E3 this year, making this quite clearly the quiet-period before a new product release.
- rolltiide 7y ago
  Has it not been clear this whole decade that Sony has been killing it on the console gaming front? The exclusives alone.....
abraae 7y ago
This is a nice tale of redemption for MS. Going back, they weren't always the ruthlessly cynical bad asses that saw out the last century. They let the desire to win at all costs cloud their vision. Their time in the penalty box, incurring the opprobrium of much of the IT community, has done them good. They're a corporation, so nothing is done from the good of their heart, but at least now they've recognised it's possible - necessary in fact - to play nice with others rather than stealing their lunch money as their first instinct.
gonewest 7y ago
Considering mobile isn’t it “all but two”?
bradknowles 7y ago
Microsoft is killing all businesses except one? Would that be Apple or Amazon?
thelazydogsback 7y ago
They should have kept the Kinect integral to the platform and doubled-down on it -- that thing was fun and worked great (still play those games w/my son), and it could have been a great conversational agent gateway with way more functionality than we have now, well before Alexa et al. w/o the Kinect, the x-box may as well be a PS/x or PC AFAICT.

13 points by whack 7y ago

> Microsoft was led by stellar results in the Azure cloud computing, LinkedIn and cloud-software segments, with only one laggard: The Xbox gaming business and its related services. The title should be changed to Microsoft is killing it in all businesses except for Xbox gaming, IMHO. Edit: I meant on HN, since the guidelines say: "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait"

tehabe 7y ago
If that would be the headline, there would be no reason at all to click on the story.
- hpen 7y ago
  Except if you're actually interested in the story?
  - frereubu 7y ago
    If you're interested in the details, surely telling people that Xbox is the one which isn't "killing it" isn't going to stop them clicking on the link?
- mc32 7y ago
  I think I’d agree with you if it were an offline medium like a magazine or newspaper, or an online subscription where they’ve already captured revenue and it doesn’t matter if you follow through reading or not. But if it’s ad-based then I think a bit of a tease is okay. This isn’t classical click bait. I think it’s okay.
- deleted 7y ago
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- gumby 7y ago
  IIMHO if the title tells you everything about the story, it's not much of a story. In this case there was a lot in the story but not stuff I cared about so the title would have sufficed. I really hate clicking on a title and reading what amounts to a single-sentence article padded out.
Traster 7y ago
And for those out of the loop, Microsoft announced a new Xbox at E3 this year, making this quite clearly the quiet-period before a new product release.
rolltiide 7y ago
Has it not been clear this whole decade that Sony has been killing it on the console gaming front? The exclusives alone.....

abraae 7y ago

This is a nice tale of redemption for MS. Going back, they weren't always the ruthlessly cynical bad asses that saw out the last century. They let the desire to win at all costs cloud their vision. Their time in the penalty box, incurring the opprobrium of much of the IT community, has done them good. They're a corporation, so nothing is done from the good of their heart, but at least now they've recognised it's possible - necessary in fact - to play nice with others rather than stealing their lunch money as their first instinct.

gonewest 7y ago

Considering mobile isn’t it “all but two”?

bradknowles 7y ago

Microsoft is killing all businesses except one? Would that be Apple or Amazon?

thelazydogsback 7y ago

They should have kept the Kinect integral to the platform and doubled-down on it -- that thing was fun and worked great (still play those games w/my son), and it could have been a great conversational agent gateway with way more functionality than we have now, well before Alexa et al. w/o the Kinect, the x-box may as well be a PS/x or PC AFAICT.