Microsoft CEO Nadella: don't confuse Xbox with company's "core"

[pokoko]

wilco said:

pokoko said:
Whoa. Now that's interesting. Executives at his level rarely make statements without reason. Seems like he wants to distance "Microsoft" from "Xbox" a bit. Probably a bit worried that the problems with the Xbox One might influence perception of the company as a whole.

Seriously? Microsoft as a whole has major issues. The xbox brand was one of the few positive things they had going on up until they screwed it up last year. But still xbox isn't goin to tarnish microsofts image, they already have a terrible image and they have better market share in that business than they do in the cell phone or tablet business.

What he is really referring to is the fact that xbox is not their main business and that should go without saying. People have tunnel vision on this site, they forget that MS is a huge company and xbox has always been nothing more than a side project.

Uh, yeah, seriously, since cell phones and tablets are also side projects.  The core of Microsoft is their OS and Enterprise solutions.  "Major issues" is stretching it a lot for a company that earns billions in profit every quarter.  Microsoft as a whole is doing quite well, it's only these direct consumer products that are performing below par, but they're really only beachhead products, anyway.

My statement was refering to the possibility that Nadella was sending a message to investors and Enterprise clients in order to assure them that video-games consoles aren't going to drag the more important parts of the company down.  The ironic thing here is that you're the one who seems to have forgotten how big Microsoft is, and it's even more amusing that the second part of your post is basically agreeing with mine.