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A lot of the things you listed are losing money for MS. Yes, they're neat and from an end user perspective, nice toys, but the reality is that cashflow only com
by drzaiusapelord 12y ago
A lot of the things you listed are losing money for MS. Yes, they're neat and from an end user perspective, nice toys, but the reality is that cashflow only come from a handful of sources and MS really is screwing up. I think maybe it just needs to find its footing, but at the end of the day, someone needs to pay the bills. Meanwhile Apple and Google are making money hand over fist in those spaces.
- dogma1138 12y agoAmazon has never made a profit, they are a case study example of a company that never has gotten out of the red, losing money on every product and still growing to become a monster. Xbox BTW is a good earner for Microsoft, they lose money on the console and make a killing on each game. Lumia and Surface also showed very good profits from Q3 2014 and onwards. And Windows Azure is probably the only truly profitable cloud platform out there with 25-30 bln dollars in yearly profits (not income). Amazon is losing billions on their cloud, and on every other product they run including their store, the only time they got out of the red was 2009 after 15 years in business and that was never repeated again. In 2014 both MSFT and Amazon had virtually the same income Amazon even made 2-3 bln. $ more. MSFT has a net profit of 28 bln, Amazon lost 250 mil. There is more to business than just revenue streams, but as revenue goes MSFT is in a very good shape.