They didn't quite screw everything up. Cloud is making a killing. Office monthly subs is a goldmine, and Windows online subs will be too. That's why they con

They didn't quite screw everything up. Cloud is making a killing. Office monthly subs is a goldmine, and Windows online subs will be too. That's why they constantly talk cloud, it's their new bread and butter. And, in a highly related way, Xbox is also killing it. They have half the hardware sales, but their Xbox live ultimate sub is awesome. Lots of games, pretty cheap, and pretty, pretty recurring revenue. Oh, recurring revenue that feeds their cloud a gigantic customer, too. They went so far as to force most games to be compatible with both the new and old generation of Xbox's, so they could keep getting Xbox sub money. This has been successful enough that Sony has both been forced to do likewise, and Sony has resorted to the courts to stop it.