Microsoft drew a profit of $27.2 billion in the last quarter of FY25, driven by demand for the cloud and AI. Overall, it recorded profits of over a hundred billion dollars in the entire fiscal year.
Microsoft drew a profit of $27.2 billion in the last quarter of FY25, driven by demand for the cloud and AI. Overall, it recorded profits of over a hundred billion dollars in the entire fiscal year.
And they tell me Microsoft will suffer because I pirated their software
Actually these days, windows is free because what Microsoft wants is your user data. And unless you stop that from being sent to Microsoft, you are generating profit for them every time you use your computer.
Its actually brilliant. Every day when people turn on their computer or phone, Microsoft and Google makes billions from their time. By doing nothing. Passive income.
If windows is free why are they still selling windows licenses. you might get* a free upgrade between 10/11. But windows is not free.
What they mean is that it’s like WinRAR, you can use it without a license forever, but you’ll have features locked and get constantly nagged to purchase license.