They’re making money from windows, just not directly from the consumer.
Preinstalled software, advertising, and telemetry.
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gnutrino@programming.dev 6 days agoMicrosoft is surviving just fine on the profits from Azure and office 365 tbh, windows isn’t that big a deal for them these days from a raw revenue point of view.
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SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
I suppose it was a stepping stone to direct the market to using those things. Iirc it was always intended as a vehicle to run MS office