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Re:Microsoft Beats Amazon in 12-Month Cloud Revenue by briffle on Monday November 05, 2018 @02:03PM (#18384931)
I'm not really sure how my copy of Excel and Word running on my work laptop (and subscribed to monthly) should qualify as "cloud revenue".. We do host our email on their cloud servers, but according to their own sales team, that is worth $5/month per subscriber for email only. Yet we pay $20/month per user for the full office suite installed on their systems. (and more for people with other tools like Microsoft Visio and Project) Its not a "no true scotsman" its that many of their products have no cloud component at all.
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Re:Microsoft Beats Amazon in 12-Month Cloud Revenue by metafizikal on Monday November 05, 2018 @02:23PM (#18385100)
Microsoft gloms together the pay-per-use/subscription part that totally doesn't need "the cloud" (Office apps) along with the other bits that do (email, Skype/Teams, OneDrive, etc.). It makes sense that they do from a financial reporting perspective, because they sell them and you buy them as one thing.

How exactly should they split out the email or OneDrive component from Word or Excel of your $10-20/month? I don't think there's really a sensible way to do it without overcomplicating things.

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Re:Microsoft Beats Amazon in 12-Month Cloud Revenue by cwyers on Monday November 05, 2018 @02:12PM (#18385018)
The copy of Word and Excel on your laptop have cloud integration. You can do collaborative document editing a la Google Docs through the desktop copies or the web app versions.
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