• PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    They make a lot off of business licencing. They still push the consumer and education side in order to create familiarity.

    https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/30/24055445/microsoft-q2-2024-earnings-revenue-profits-windows-xbox-gaming-surface

    “Gaming contributed $7.11 billion in revenue for the quarter, more than the $5.26 billion from Windows, but behind the $13.47 billion from Office and cloud services and the giant $23.95 billion from server products and cloud services.”

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      9 months ago

      I’ve never had any major issues with windows and I can strip out what I don’t like, so whatevs. I like Linux, but gaming, so I roll with windows.

      Windows Server on the other hand, fuck that noise. Ugh.

      • averyfalken@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        9 months ago

        Gamings gotten pretty good with linux. I made the switcheroo when windows forced an update that undid a lot of my changes to windows AGAIN and I was like evwrytime they do this I have to take time to finish this and was pissed.

        All games I play work on Linux no problem and all the games I’ve been interested since then have worked day 1; but of course I’ve always taken issue with games that have kernel level anticheats.