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On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:41:56 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:

> They say that last year, server products and cloud services were $98B,
> Office products and cloud services were $55B Windows was $23B Games was
> $22B Linkedin was $16B Other stuff was about $30B together
> 
> So yes, they're making a lot of money from Windows, but they're making
> more from Azure.  It's competetive but they're surprisingly good at it.

And Azure, like the entire rest of the cloud industry, is predominantly 
running Linux.