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Re:Microsoft Azure Outage by jiveturkey on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @03:54PM (#45752177)
it's retail. the margin is 30-50% for sure.

EDIT: their last quarterly was 36%. they lost $3.7bn in 24Q4 -- the christmas quarter. sold to PE in Q1.

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Re:Microsoft Azure Outage by hinkley on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @04:40PM (#45752721)
All my limited knowledge about retail is that losing money in Q4 means you’re dead. Are they fundamentally different than retail?
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