Comment by croon
7 days ago
While I certainly don't agree in the phrasing or even in the general framing of GP, I think there's a point to be made that might not be in the quantifiable data.
The data putting Windows a ways down in revenue is likely correct, but I would argue that losing Windows could mean losing the others as well. Windows is their funnel to most other offerings (currently). Why is MS Office the standard? Why is Azure used? I know for certain that many purchases of Office and Azure were made because of legacy corporate policy of basing IT around Windows/AD. If everyone switched to Linux or MacOS, a lot of seemingly separate Microsoft products would probably die as a downstream effect.
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