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minus-squarereddig33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months ago cloud services exceeded $75 billion Office productivity software and LinkedIn, delivered $33.11 billion in revenue Personal Computing unit, which encompasses Windows, search advertising, devices and video games, totaled $13.45 billion Writing is on the wall. Xbox and Windows made money, but a fraction of what Office and enterprise services made.
minus-squareRickRussell_CA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months agoVertical integration. Windows underpins Office, and even cloud services. Xbox though, they’ve already pretty much written its epitaph.
minus-squareSkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoIsn’t Linux mostly used for cloud services though?
minus-squareRickRussell_CA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoI have no statistics, but my sense is that most orgs still depend on Active Directory, Sharepoint, and other services that are Windows-based and often hosted on the company’s cloud structure. And Azure itself is fundamentally a Windows service.
minus-squareSkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 months agohttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/linuxandopensourceblog/announcing-availability-of-almalinux-as-an-endorsed-linux-distribution-in-azure/4282201 Linux has become the most popular operating system on Azure as over 60% of customer cores run Linux-based workloads. Even on Microsoft Azure they mostly use Linux Maybe windows still underpins some important services for them though, I can’t really comment on that
Writing is on the wall. Xbox and Windows made money, but a fraction of what Office and enterprise services made.
Vertical integration. Windows underpins Office, and even cloud services.
Xbox though, they’ve already pretty much written its epitaph.
Isn’t Linux mostly used for cloud services though?
I have no statistics, but my sense is that most orgs still depend on Active Directory, Sharepoint, and other services that are Windows-based and often hosted on the company’s cloud structure. And Azure itself is fundamentally a Windows service.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/linuxandopensourceblog/announcing-availability-of-almalinux-as-an-endorsed-linux-distribution-in-azure/4282201
Even on Microsoft Azure they mostly use Linux
Maybe windows still underpins some important services for them though, I can’t really comment on that