Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
by skizm on Friday February 01, 2019 @05:12PM
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IIRC the android revenue is rolled into the x-box revenue under some nebulous category when they break out revenue in their earning (forget the exact title). This hides the massive losses they are taking on x-box and all things x-box related. The android revenue is almost pure profit and nearly $2B annually. (they make this money by licencing patents to phone makers that use android such as HTC and Samsung)
Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
by twoheadedboy on Friday February 01, 2019 @07:44PM
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Do you have any sources or related info about this? That's super interesting.
Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
by vijayagrawal18 on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:44PM
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Looks like "new" Microsoft is not aggressively going after that pie.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-may-relinquishing-b...
Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
by rasz on Saturday February 02, 2019 @01:10AM
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Arent most of those patents pure junk? Afair the only valid patent in there was something to do with FAT long filenames , and that one was killed with Linus help back in 2013.
Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
by Ruxbin1986 on Saturday February 02, 2019 @03:05PM
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I can't recall but I think many of them were User Interface related and rather specific.
Not like the Apple claim of "Rounded Rectangles" but I will admit that it did appear even at face value that both Apple and Microsoft had a strong case against HTC, Samsung, etc.
But I guess one of these makes better headlines for clickbait. YMMV.
Aside from that, one of thing most amusing things and one Ballmer excellent business moves was suing nearly every Android Smartphone Company for patent infringement. Microsoft literally makes money off of Android Smartphones but what's confusing to me is how Apple takes all of the flak.