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Machiavellian on 15 September 2016
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Drakrami said:
Machiavellian said:

Actually there have been rumors that investors wanted MS to drop or spin off the console.  I cannot remember any rumors on MS themselves going down this line.  Do not forget that Satya is looking to make MS a tools and service company.  The Xbox brand is still one of their best devices to deliver the service part.  With that, investment on strengthening the Xbox brand is in their best interest.

 Microsoft's Xbox Live has become the envy of all other online-gaming services. Yet, speculation abounds that Nadella will try to trim the fat at Microsoft and sell off the Xbox division to another company. Xbox doesn't fit into Nadella's vision for Microsoft, reports say, and he's willing to drop the division for the right price. But Nadella should consider such a move carefully. While gaming might not fit into Microsoft's core enterprise software and services business, the Xbox division is too big and too important for Microsoft to sell off even as it tries to move deeper into the mobile hardware market.H

How old is this story.  I remember reading this a long time ago but as stated here its speculation, meaning nothing actuallying coming from Nadella.  From my understanding this is a statement made by some analyst but it had absolutly nothing to do with actual direction or statements from the CEO.   If we take his actual statements then it paints a different picture

“The single biggest digital life category, measured in both time and money spent, in a mobile-first world is gaming,” writes Nadella in the letter, adding that Microsoft is “fortunate” to have the Xbox brand, and that the company “will continue to vigorously innovate and delight gamers with Xbox.”

This link where I got that quote also talks about that statement which really does not prove anything then someone believing they know the direction MS is going instead of actually knowing.

http://time.com/2972888/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-suggests-the-future-of-xbox-could-be-mobile/