Not a loss leader, it's still $17.08 Billion dollars (~5%) of their revenue according to bullfincher:
In fiscal year 2026, Microsoft Corporation's revenue by segment (products & services) are as follows:
Dynamics Products And Cloud Services: $9.01 B
Enterprise and partner services: $8.26 B
Linked In Corporation: $19.82 B
Microsoft Three Six Five Commercial Products And Cloud Services: $102.00 B
Microsoft Three Six Five Consumer Products and Cloud Services: $9.18 B
Other Products And Services: $109.00 M
Search Advertising: $15.18 B
Server Products And Cloud Services: $129.43 B
Windows and Devices: $17.08 B
XBOX: $21.79 B
This is down from 2024, when Windows was $23 Billion of revenue equaling nearly 10% of their annual revenue.
I just had a thought. I wonder if the idea of dynamically linked libraries in Unix and later of DLLs in Windows came somehow from the concept of overlays. And whether the overlay concept preceded (MS)-DOS.
Are the first use of 'scanner' and the second use of 'scanner' the same variable, or are they in different scopes. If they are in different scopes , would it be better to use a different variable, for the code to be more readable?
Different variable in a different scope referring to the same thing. Normally I'd agree with giving it a different name, but both scanner variables refer to the same object in memory, so it doesn't actually matter that they are different variables in the code as shown.
loss leader funda in action, prolly.
or, sort of: those who live together, stick together.
aka if you buy window pcs, you're likely to buy windows servers and vice versa.
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