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)
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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.