| kowenicki said:
Their enterprise stuff. office, office 365, share point, lync. the cloud based stuff is driving MASSIVE revenues now. This is easy profit too. Enterprise will be the biggest profit driver going forward, it's guaranteed income, year in, year out from repeat licensing. This is mostly moving toward monthly fee per user income streams which is far better for Ms. |
I can only imagine! It's global and basically on demand, with Microsoft only needing to ensure their clusters are functioning (which they can likely automate with distributed cluster server administration software) and manual node replacement (when upgrading hardware).
The line between consumer products and OS and application software is fine. I'm not sure where S.T.A.G.E. was going with that, but I do admit that xbox and Zune were MS' attempt at getting out of the soft world and into the world of consumer products. Problem is that happened like 13 years ago. And since when is it a bad thing to diversify if your eggs truly are too close together (Windows and Office are pretty related though being different businesses)?
