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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft makes a lot of money, Is Intel exceptionally
 unsuccessful as an architecture designer?
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:37:01 -0000 (UTC)
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It appears that Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> said:
>On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:41:50 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:
>
>> According to Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid>:
>>
>>>On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:54:51 +0300, Michael S wrote:
>>>
>>>> There are few things Intel would wish more than to "suffer"
>>>> financially like Microsoft.
>>>
>>> It is true that Microsoft is not (yet) losing money, ...
>> 
>> Windows is shrinking but Azure and both commercial and personal Office
>> are hugely profitable.
>
>That’s not disputing anything I said. 

Microsoft is stupendously profitable.  There is no plausible argument that they
will lose money any time in the forseeable future.

>No mention of games?

Well, you know, if you wanted to know rather than just argue, you could look it up.

This page may be helpful.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2024-Q4/IRFinancialStatementsPopups?tag=us-gaap:SegmentReportingDisclosureTextBlock&title=More%20Personal%20Computing

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