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Cloud services now bring in more money than Productivity and Business suites. Interesting.
by chirau 4y ago
Cloud services now bring in more money than Productivity and Business suites. Interesting.
- johannes1234321 4y agoYou only get a good discount on Microsoft Dynamics if you also get some cloud credits ... oh and while getting it: do you want the LinkedIn integration to Dynamics? LinkedIn is accounted for under cloud, too. They can shift the revenue accountingwise wherever they want it. (Just have to make sure they internally track it better, to see which products actually bring the money ...)
- GartzenDeHaes 4y agoMicrosoft bundles on-prem enterprise office and exchange licenses into O365, so I think those numbers are misleading.
- jeffhwang 4y agoYes I think this is correct. For years, MS has made apples-to-apples comparisons with AWS challenging by bundling in cloud app revenue into the overall Azure cloud business. Makes sense bc Office365 SaaS was so much larger than IAAS and PAAS.
- chirau 4y agoO365 and on-prem enterprise suites are under Productivity and Business Processes
- josephh 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33338742 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33338742
- colinmhayes 4y agoAs others have said microsoft leverages their considerable relationships and other products to pump their cloud numbers. My friend who worked for an electric generator told me that microsoft offered to switch the electricity source of their data centers to their company if they switched their cloud to azure. That's on top of the O365 deal and of course massive credits.
- propogandist 4y agocreative accounting tricks will allow anything to be classified as "Cloud" revenue.
- trelane 4y agoSo you're saying that Cloud revenue is quite nebulous?
- RajT88 4y agoYou can't be cirrus.
- karmakurtisaani 4y agoPlease let's not do this on HN.
- trelane 4y agoOr please do. I personally like puns. :)
- karmakurtisaani 4y agoIt's not really about liking them or not. It's about keeping the signal to noise ratio high and leaving the rest to Reddit.
- RajT88 4y agoI get your point, but puns are the least of our collective concerns when it comes to signal to noise ratio. Such subthreads are fairly rare considering people trying to jam in (say) partisan politics.