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What will MS do when Linux becomes a serious threat to their monopoly ? (lemmy.world)
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Will they lobby for laws that prohibit Linux or make it difficult to install? What actions might they take in the future?

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[–] 62 points 1 year ago* (12 children)

I believe they just don't care, since not only is Windows not very profitable anymore, the real money is at businesses. So as long as they sell licenses to businesses (business laptops, etc), but also GitHub Enterprise (yes, Micro$oft also owns GitHub) Microsoft earns enough money that way. And also think cloud (Azure)..

My guess is therefor that the focus on Windows isn't that big anymore. I just hope more companies and gaming devs/publishes also push native binaries towards Linux.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    not only is Windows not very profitable anymore, the real money is at businesses.

    Hear me out, this is exactly why they care. Windows as a product isn't profitable anymore, but as a market share it is. Apple has always enjoyed their locked down ecosystem and Google is trying to completely block side loading on devices we already largely don't have control over the bootloader. It's no secret Microsoft has been seething with jealousy for years.

    https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

    You're a soulless corporate ghoul, how do you make those numbers work for you? Why do you think they have the absolute gall to tell you to throw your computer out and get one that supports TPM 2.0? Why do you think there are still so many people willing or not that will swallow that bitter pill that's Windows 11?

    I'm not trying to call you out in particular here or anything, but I think it's foolish to assume they don't

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Agreed

    I think Windows is primarily a development environment for Xbox, just as macOS is primarily a development environment for iOS Everything else of value from Microsoft is available via the web/cloud (even Office)

    Eventually, Microsoft might even decide that it's more profitable to abandon Windows completely

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    office 365 is a fraction of the true power of office. do not even try to compare the two.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I think you’re mixing up Office 365 and Office Online.

    Office 365 is a subscription for Microsoft Office that includes access to both the full, more powerful desktop Office applications and the much less powerful Office Online.

    Though I don’t think it’s even called Office 365 anymore, but I don’t respect MS enough to bother to Google what they’re calling it now.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    MS hasn't released an Office version outside 365 for 8 years.

    365 is Office for them.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I agree

    But how many paying customers need features that are not in the online/cloud versions of Office?

    Sure this is a shrinking number of people?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    the same could be said about libreoffice, but the only reason I gave Microsoft money for office was for dealing with specifically the edge cases where a document won't work with other word processing programs. The browser based ms office is comparable to Google docs, usable 98% of the time.

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