Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs

vane@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Microsoft would be better up split into multiple companies. They’re killing windows with lack of innovation. They’re also putting Xbox slowly out of business. They have no phone on the market and they barely have a tablet with the surface line. They also stopped making peripherals.

  I think the current CEO is just trying to make Microsoft into the next lumbering IBM.

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  • vane@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Microsoft Corporation’s Revenue by Segment

    Products & Services (Percent Share)	2023	2024	2025
    Server Products And Tools	37.74%	39.87%	34.94%
    Microsoft Three Six Five Commercial Products And Cloud Services	-	-	31.15%
    Gaming	7.3%	8.77%	8.33%
    Linked In Corporation	7.15%	6.68%	6.32%
    Devices	2.61%	1.92%	6.15%
    Search And News Advertising5.76%	5.13%	4.93%
    Dynamics Products And Cloud Services	2.57%	2.64%	2.78%
    Enterprise Services	3.64%	3.1%	2.75%
    Microsoft Three Six Five Consumer Products and Cloud Services	-	-	2.63%
    Other Products And Services	0.1%	0.02%	0.03%
    Microsoft Office System	22.99%	22.39%	-
    Windows	10.15%	9.48%	-
    Total Revenue	100%	100%	100%

    I doubt they care about consumers, it makes them pennies compared to servers and cloud.
    source: bullfincher.io/companies/…/revenue-by-segment

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    • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      All the more reason to spin off their consumer products divisions rather than killing them.

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      • vane@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        they’re not killing them, they’re monopolizing what they have by adding mandatory cloud like apple and google so you have no way to switch, sure they will lose customers but those who will stay won’t leave anymore because there won’t be way back

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  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Windows needed to die a long time ago… so whatever. Same with XBOX and their phone, just a waste of time. Microsoft never made a product worth owning.

    But the days of Gates saying to every department “how does this sell more windows” are long gone.

    Many years ago a Microsoft team told me that the only thing important was data. The more the better. Windows wasn’t important, products were not important. Harvesting data and creating services was the future and nothing else mattered.

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    • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Android and iOS have made companies fortunes. But keep telling yourself Windows Phone needed to die.

      Same with game consoles. Switch I & II have made Nintendo a ton of money.

      These Microsoft products would have been profitable in the hands of a company that actually cared about them.

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      • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah but they were microsoft. So they sucked. That’s how it works. Maybe in the hands of someone else it wouldn’t have been Microsoft crap.

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