how does microsoft earn money? it's said almost everyone

>>56129782
newfag believing that copy pasta
business dont pirate else they risk getting rekt fag

>>56129799
>business dont pirate
XDDD nice one mayt ;))

>>56129782
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/trended/quarterly-income-statements.aspx

>>56129799
only true for large ones, small businesses don't give a shit. And it's true individual users don't buy windows, I have yet to meet a person who purchased a windows operating system.

>>56129782
From corporations. My company pays Microsoft hundreds of millions in licensing costs and support each year.

>>56129782
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy

>>56132065
>I have yet to meet a person who purchased a windows operating system.
Anyone who ever bought a prebuilt laptop or desktop PC paid for Windows.

>>56129782
Most people don't pirate peoples, most people get a copy in their prebuilt computer and the cost for windows is included in its cost.

minecraft licenses

>>56132065

I work in a small company and the use legal MS soft. Giving admin privileges to some exe made by a Igor Ruvanov is extremely retarded and childish

in my town a company was using pirated windows xp and they got a 3m fine during an audit.

software licenses probably rake in a lot.
shit like xamarin probably makes a lot.
prebuilt pc manufacturers probably get wholesale priced OS's.
xbox live probably makes dollarooney.
C# must make some money.

on top of that, it's true that company's can get too big to fail.

>>56133840
You just earned 10 rupees

Every mouse with a wheel includes licensing fees for Microsoft because they own the patent on mouse wheels.
Probably partly why Apple doesn't use mouse wheels.

>>56133973
Really?

They sell user data to advertising companies.

>>56133990
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3322891/Microsoft+Wins+Patent+for+Scroll+Mouse.htm

>>56134438
Wow I bet they make so much fucking money from that, almost all mouses have one.

>>56134438
wierd, the mouse wheel is the shittiest loudest part of my mouse. and I barely use it to scroll. I use it for the buttons.

First they patent a wheel, are they going to patent the buttons too??

fuck microshaft.

>>56129782
Selling their products to enterprises.

>>56132065
Are Houston hospitals considered small? One of the research teams I interviewed with had pirated copies of seven. I told them they could remove the black screen if they tried daz loader.

>>56129782

Minecraft.

>>56129782
enterprise to enterprise

personal consumers have no idea how little they matter in the tech market