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How are the free hours from BizSpark handled? (http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0012p http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0012p) Are
by niggler 13y ago
How are the free hours from BizSpark handled? (http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0012p http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0012p) Are those treated as sales?
- barista 13y agoEven if they did, they probably don't add to the 1B figure as they are free
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- josh2600 13y agoI don't want to describe this comment as ignorant but I almost feel that I have to... There are numerous accounting tricks employed by organizations big and small to book revenue on promotional services. One popular way of doing this is to charge the marketing departments budget for the promo hours but record the cost of the hours as revenue. The overall bottom line of $MSFT is uneffected but the product, in this case azure, benefits from increased visibility. I don't think Azure is doing anywhere near AWS in sales if you don't count promo deals.
- jaynate 13y agoCompletely agree with this. They are giving away massive amounts of platform time to seed usage. Better question is when Azure will break even (net, including R&D and internal marketing transfers to the Azure business).