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But still, Microsoft is the most diversified of the big players - they have Windows, Office, Enterprise, Xbox, Azure, Surface - they can survive a mess like the
by codeulike 8mo ago
But still, Microsoft is the most diversified of the big players - they have Windows, Office, Enterprise, Xbox, Azure, Surface - they can survive a mess like their current copilot mess and still generally thrive
- bagacrap 8mo agoThrive, or just muddle through?
- pjmlp 8mo agoOnly because they have enough money in the bank.
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- g947o 8mo agoIt has more to do with Microsoft's size and long history. If you are big and have been doing the same thing for many years, naturally you'll want to expand, some of which do succeed.
- codeulike 8mo agoGoogle and Facebook have failed to do this, so why is that?
- g947o 8mo agoFailed to do what? I'm sure you can find good analysis of why specific products failed. And both Google/Alphabet and Facebook/Meta have a bunch of side projects that are reasonably successful.
- codeulike 8mo agoThey have failed to diversify, is what I meant, despite being around for approx 2 decades
- codeulike 8mo agoLets look at diversification of revenue: meta $164b revenue in 2024: 98% advertising google $350b revenue in 2024: 76% advertising, 12% google cloud, 12% other apple $391b revenue in 2024: 66% hardware (iphone, ipad, mac), 25% services (app store etc), 9% other amazon $638b revenue in 2024: 64% amazon store+associated services, 17% AWS, 9% ads, 11% other microsoft $245b revenue in 2024: 40% azure/server products, 22% office, 10% windows, 9% gaming, 7% linkedin, 5% search+ads, 8% other I'm not particularly a microsoft fan, just making this point because I think MS is poorly understood by the HN crowd