Comment by warumdarum
15 hours ago
How many percent of their revenue funel are dependent directly or indirectly on windows beeing the peoples workstation funneling them towards their subpar products?
15 hours ago
How many percent of their revenue funel are dependent directly or indirectly on windows beeing the peoples workstation funneling them towards their subpar products?
In the Enterprise, they'll fight tooth and nail to maintain that synergy. In the small business and consumer markets, people are having a very slow divorce from Windows, and Microsoft is well aware. MS365 is an ok product and can absolutely thrive on its own without Windows.
Probably some amount. I agree Windows is strategic, but do definitely could see them giving it away and/or fully open sourcing it.
It is most likely impossible, given the amount of code that is probably still under contractors copyright, or other kinds of licenses.
They don't have to provide the source to give the OS away for free.
The difference between BSD and GPL in one sentence.