It seems interesting to me that Windows integrates more and more elements of Unix.
Linux is open source and free, Apple develop an OS that sells specific hardware, and historically Windows has sold the software for generic hardware. Windows is unlikely to become a better Linux than Linux. Where is Microsoft's new business model going?
Historically Office was a money maker, but Office online is a shambles and many users interact with Office via this interface - I see Office slowly dying in favour of open source options. I see Windows licenses being sold less and less in the future. Microsoft Lens is essentially buried at this point. There are the Surface laptops/tablets which are good but not special. Dedicated games console hardware will likely become less attractive as they slowly become glorified desktop PCs.
I don't see Microsoft with big user shares in the software or hardware industries? There were a few good purchases such as Minecraft, GitHub (+), etc [1]. Is there something I'm missing?
"Microsoft revenue was $198 billion in 2022, up $30.2bn (+18%) from a year earlier. When we do a breakdown by product streams, the largest source of Microsoft’s revenue was Office, with $44.9 billion (23% of the total). Just behind in the second place was Azure with $44bn of revenue (22% of total)." - https://www.kamilfranek.com/microsoft-revenue-breakdown/
Office alone increasing by $5Bn revenue in a year, increasing by $24Bn in ~3 years, being the largest chunk of revenue of the most valuable market-cap company on the planet, that's what counts as "slowly dying"??
Linux is open source and free, Apple develop an OS that sells specific hardware, and historically Windows has sold the software for generic hardware. Windows is unlikely to become a better Linux than Linux. Where is Microsoft's new business model going?
Historically Office was a money maker, but Office online is a shambles and many users interact with Office via this interface - I see Office slowly dying in favour of open source options. I see Windows licenses being sold less and less in the future. Microsoft Lens is essentially buried at this point. There are the Surface laptops/tablets which are good but not special. Dedicated games console hardware will likely become less attractive as they slowly become glorified desktop PCs.
I don't see Microsoft with big user shares in the software or hardware industries? There were a few good purchases such as Minecraft, GitHub (+), etc [1]. Is there something I'm missing?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
(+) GitHub's new security model is outright hostile - to the point I no longer want to use it.