← Back to context Comment by ribosometronome 7 days ago >free for basic usage, paid for commercial usageAnd lose all the OEM license money? 5 comments ribosometronome Reply al_borland 7 days ago Windows is now less than 10% of their revenue, last I saw. I think Windows is more valuable to keep people in the Microsoft ecosystem, than as a source of direct revenue. wlesieutre 7 days ago Do they make more money from OEM licenses, or from bombarding Windows users with OneDrive and Copilot 365 advertisements? ProllyInfamous 6 days ago What if it's actually the AI-derived "user profile," sold to advertisers/govts, after their mandatory bot scans all your drive.Just hypothetically... of course they're not actually doing this?----Anywho, doesn't matter cause my Xeon went from Windows 10 to Linux, this year. Still rocking a Win7Pro Core2Duo (as my second favorite machine). guidedlight 6 days ago Perhaps Microsoft plans to bundle Windows into its "Microsoft 365" subscription for the consumer market. relativeadv 7 days ago won't someone think of the shareholders?
al_borland 7 days ago Windows is now less than 10% of their revenue, last I saw. I think Windows is more valuable to keep people in the Microsoft ecosystem, than as a source of direct revenue.
wlesieutre 7 days ago Do they make more money from OEM licenses, or from bombarding Windows users with OneDrive and Copilot 365 advertisements? ProllyInfamous 6 days ago What if it's actually the AI-derived "user profile," sold to advertisers/govts, after their mandatory bot scans all your drive.Just hypothetically... of course they're not actually doing this?----Anywho, doesn't matter cause my Xeon went from Windows 10 to Linux, this year. Still rocking a Win7Pro Core2Duo (as my second favorite machine).
ProllyInfamous 6 days ago What if it's actually the AI-derived "user profile," sold to advertisers/govts, after their mandatory bot scans all your drive.Just hypothetically... of course they're not actually doing this?----Anywho, doesn't matter cause my Xeon went from Windows 10 to Linux, this year. Still rocking a Win7Pro Core2Duo (as my second favorite machine).
guidedlight 6 days ago Perhaps Microsoft plans to bundle Windows into its "Microsoft 365" subscription for the consumer market.
Windows is now less than 10% of their revenue, last I saw. I think Windows is more valuable to keep people in the Microsoft ecosystem, than as a source of direct revenue.
Do they make more money from OEM licenses, or from bombarding Windows users with OneDrive and Copilot 365 advertisements?
What if it's actually the AI-derived "user profile," sold to advertisers/govts, after their mandatory bot scans all your drive.
Just hypothetically... of course they're not actually doing this?
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Anywho, doesn't matter cause my Xeon went from Windows 10 to Linux, this year. Still rocking a Win7Pro Core2Duo (as my second favorite machine).
Perhaps Microsoft plans to bundle Windows into its "Microsoft 365" subscription for the consumer market.
won't someone think of the shareholders?