I have no statistics, but my sense is that most orgs still depend on Active Directory, Sharepoint, and other services that are Windows-based and often hosted on the company’s cloud structure. And Azure itself is fundamentally a Windows service.
Xbox should’ve been the prestige product for Microsoft (just like Logic/Final Cut for Apple) but Xbox itself depleted any prestige it ever accumulated over the last few years.
Vertical integration. Windows underpins Office, and even cloud services.
Xbox though, they’ve already pretty much written its epitaph.
Xbox is actively being dropped from Target and Walmart, but it doesn’t help that the push is for digital games with no physical presence in stores.
Isn’t Linux mostly used for cloud services though?
I have no statistics, but my sense is that most orgs still depend on Active Directory, Sharepoint, and other services that are Windows-based and often hosted on the company’s cloud structure. And Azure itself is fundamentally a Windows service.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/linuxandopensourceblog/announcing-availability-of-almalinux-as-an-endorsed-linux-distribution-in-azure/4282201
Even on Microsoft Azure they mostly use Linux
Maybe windows still underpins some important services for them though, I can’t really comment on that
Xbox should’ve been the prestige product for Microsoft (just like Logic/Final Cut for Apple) but Xbox itself depleted any prestige it ever accumulated over the last few years.