Microsoft's Financial Strength
Comments discuss Microsoft's enormous profits from Windows and Office, its ability to absorb losses on ventures like Xbox, Surface, and acquisitions, and overall financial resources enabling bold investments.
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Microsoft makes ~$2bn/year from it.
All those sweet Microsoft money has to somewhere, doesn't it?
Doesn’t Microsoft have enough money?
Microsoft for example has several billion dollar businesses aside from Windows, Office, and enterprise. Their Surface and Xbox hardware, for example, pulls in that much revenue each. They'll be fine.
you just cost Microsoft $8.5 billion
Xbox did lose Microsoft billion(s) and take years to become profitable. But now it is profitable and one of their key products. They could lose billions on the Surface but they can also afford to lose billions. They have lost billions on terrible acquisitions in the last decade. I think it is better to spend the money on products that could help them be competitive.
What do you mean? Microsoft was certainly seeing more than 5-10$ per product sold.
You might want to make that a bit more public - I would assume Microsoft wouldn't care about a company unless it made millions a year.
Is Microsoft making money off hardware upgrades?
Microsoft has billions in cash.