Or maybe they will launch Win 12 with optional TPM support.

Imho making the OS(es) TPM only cannot be good for their business, many people are still on Win 10 with no intention to switch, since their motheboard does not support TPM and do not want to upgrade PC / waste PCI-E slot on TPM extension.

  • Alex@feddit.roEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    But they can’t track you as much on windows 10, and almost not at all on linux

            • Gerudo@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              It’s not that Windows isn’t profitable, it’s that Office is insanely profitable. There’s a running joke inside MS that Office pays the bills, everything else is icing on the cake.

        • Gerudo@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          It’s not that Windows isn’t profitable, it’s that Office is insanely profitable. There’s a running joke inside MS that Office pays the bills, everything else is icing on the cake.

        • Gerudo@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          It’s not that Windows isn’t profitable, it’s that Office is insanely profitable. There’s a running joke inside MS that Office pays the bills, everything else is icing on the cake.

        • Patch@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I don’t know if it’s still this way, but a decade and more ago (when I last had any professional contact with Microsoft’s development) the company was effectively divided into two competing factions- the Office people and the Windows people. They had wildly different priorities for the shared tech stack, and mutually exclusive demands on the others’ products, and there was a constant bun fight on who got their way. The surprising thing is, even by that era, the Office faction were the dominant one; that’s where the real money was.

          Then I gather the Azure faction was born and has completely dominated both, becoming a massive majority of the company’s profitable business.

          The gaming people (Xbox and whatnot) were always poor relations, if you’re wondering, and MS R&D was its own eccentric little world which seemed to exist entirely outside of the universe inhabited by any of the others.