nitekrawler1285 on 13 May 2014
| Xenostar said: Yeah to there gaming strategy not to MS as a whole |
It’s also worth pointing out that Bill Gates said in the same interview: “We’re taking PC gaming, Windows gaming and Xbox gaming, and bringing those a lot closer together.” Here he is probably referring to the fact that Microsoft now uses a common Windows 8-based kernel across PC, smartphone, tablet, and game console — and if these platforms are intrinsically linked, he says a sell-off is “not as obvious as you might think.”
Given how many times they have started and restarted the games for windows thing I think it's clear they look at gaming as a part of the company as a whole. Even if it's never been spectacularly profitable for them.
