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Wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft is readying itself to sell/splitoff its consumer products and focus on Enterprise and Cloud. That could also be part of the r
by Mountain_Skies 4y ago
Wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft is readying itself to sell/splitoff its consumer products and focus on Enterprise and Cloud. That could also be part of the reason why they're trying to make the consumer version of Windows generate revenue streams. The only thing that might point the other direction is the acquisition of Activision. Why buy it if you're going to spinoff that division?
- beambot 4y agoIf they're selling or splitting off consumer, why are they trying to buy Activision Blizzard?
- cududa 4y agoI'm genuinely curious here - how old are you? People bring up this theory time and time again - since judge Thomas Penfield Jackson decreed the same thing in 2000, which was overturned. Having been a former Microsoft employee working on enterprise to consumer stuff, this would be such an obscenely horrible move. There truly is a virtuous cycle between consumer and enterprise products influencing eachother. Modern Azure VM's are based off the VM segmenting of Xbox One that seperated the "app/ OS" stacks from "on the metal gaming VM". Hell, even Dave Cutler came back to work on the Xbox One VM partitioning which then folded into Azure.
- tootie 4y agoI think VR/AR were massively over hyped and the actual size of the market just isn't very big.
- Kukumber 4y agoBuying Activision is only to counter Tencent (or Netease, i forgot wich one), wich was interested in acquiring them Microsoft and the US military are very close