Indeependent
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Many corporations have a “forced by MS” policy of upgrading annually even though they don’t install the software.Then wtf are you talking about? E3 from 7 years ago? Yeah that was bungled beyond all imaginable belief but you don't have to be number one among your competitors in sales numbers if you are marketing a brand and not just a plastic logo.That said, XBox sure has been an abject financial failure for them
You too are apparently out of the loop.
How Microsoft’s record-setting $10B gaming year compares to rivals Sony and Nintendo
The Xbox brand isn't about the hardware. It is all about the software and annual subscriptions.
I didn't say anything about the hardware. MSFT has always been a software company.
I really have no clue what you are on about. Office and Azure collectively rake in $40-$50B a year. It doesn't matter if it looks like it did today the way its did 3 years ago or 13 years ago. They have done away with disks so all you get in the box is a online download key and they restrict your licensing so that companies have to keep buying the same programs over and over and over again every time they replace a workstation, get a new laptop, etc etc etc. There is no more just reinstalling MS products as often as you want as long as you have the key from the box.