The Windows 11 Trash Party

Re:The Windows 11 Trash Party by emodendroket on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:15PM (#35609557)

I mean, ignoring our personal preferences, which of those two halves of the business sounds like it's sustaining the other? I see a bunch of (cool) tools in one column, some of which admittedly might encourage people to use Windows or other paid MS products, albeit less so than in the past; in the other I see a lot of solid recurring revenue streams.

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Re:The Windows 11 Trash Party by delta_p_delta_x on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:50PM (#35609768)

Azure is Microsoft's biggest money-maker, not the inclusion of ads in Windows. Windows itself drives 12% of Microsoft sales[1].

[1]: https://www.kamilfranek.com/microsoft-revenue-breakdown/

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Re:The Windows 11 Trash Party by emodendroket on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @02:03AM (#35610472)

I think Azure is a bit of an awkward fit in the group, but just sticking with it, it's still eclipsed if we combine Windows, search advertising, "enterprise services," and Office, which would all seem to fit in the originally-provided "bad" group.

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Re:The Windows 11 Trash Party by TheRealDunkirk on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @08:42AM (#35613222)

I long for the day when someone will dissect the numbers, and show how much of Windows' vaunted desktop share is due to corporate licenses. I think it would show that -- when people are buying with their own money -- they're preferring Macs 2-to-1 over PC's now.

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Re:The Windows 11 Trash Party by dagw on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:06AM (#35613458)

when people are buying with their own money -- they're preferring Macs 2-to-1 over PC's now.

I suspect that most people actually spending their own money are spending less than $1000, which more or less puts Apple out of the running.

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Re:The Windows 11 Trash Party by TheRealDunkirk on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @10:27AM (#35614460)

And I suspect that the majority of people looking for sub-$1,000 computers are buying iPads, not crappy plastic HP's.

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Re:The Windows 11 Trash Party by wakaru44 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @11:09AM (#35615015)

I would suspect the people looking for computers under 1k will get the plastic hp because they need a computer, and will get the cheap android tablet when they want a tablet. source: all my relatives and acquaintances that can't afford apple take those exact choices.

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