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https://www.theverge.com/tech/780946/microsoft-satya-nadella-town-hall-comments-ai-era-notepad>:
Microsoft still generates around one-fifth of its annual revenue
from productivity software, but Nadella said that rCLsome of the
margin that we love today might not be there tomorrow.rCY ItrCOs a
stark warning to Microsoft employees that a platform shift is
underway, and one that is already causing big changes inside
Microsoft.
I always thought rCLproductivity softwarerCY included, indeed was mainly, Microsoft Office. Presumably that also covers the cloud version?
If so, thatrCOs a remarkable decline from the time where the lionrCOs
share of MicrosoftrCOs revenue came from Windows and Office. For its
first 5 years at least, the Xbox division was losing about a billion a
year, so Windows + Office added up to as much as 140% of total company
profit!
But if Office/365 is no longer such a big money-earner, that means
that future investment into it is going to be correspondingly reduced.
Time for companies heavily invested in it to start thinking about
alternatives?
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