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[โ€“] DivineDev@piefed.social 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Direct revenue through Windows sales might be low, but I suspect Windows is still important to drive people to buy One Cloud, office 365 etc subscriptions. So when people move away to Linux, the other services should become less profitable with some time delay

[โ€“] wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

Most likely. The majority of MS products and services are interconnected in some way.