Comment by os2warpman
16 days ago
US government spending is (for now) easy to track, and you can get totals for spending by corporate entity.
In total across the entire US federal government, $518.8 million was paid to Microsoft for products and services in 2024. That is approximately 0.21% of their total annual revenue.
I assert that the threshold for "state sponsored" is well in excess of 0.21% of annual revenue.
Federal Spending: https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/dd77b7c3-663e-cb91-229...
Microsoft Annual Revenue: https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar24/index.html
How much money have states and local governments spent on Microsoft products and services? How much money has Microsoft collected from companies that are providing products and services to US governmental agencies?
Government spending is not easy to track. This doesn't even begin to touch on non-monetary benefits Microsoft receives with government influence.
Now you are really starting to bend over backwards. The claim was that MS was a state enterprise. It's still not even close.
I'm mostly adding context to the statistic that Microsoft makes 0.21% of its revenue from the federal government, and arguing against the sub-claim that government spending is easy to track.
If you look at Ford and Intel you would find similar numbers - but they are clearly quasi state entities.
Exactly