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Comment by MuffinFlavored

Look at these business sector names:

Azure + other cloud services

Dynamics products + cloud services

Office 365 commercial

Office commercial products + cloud services

Office consumer products + cloud services

Search + news advertising

Excluding traffic acquisition costs

Server products + cloud services

Windows commercial products + cloud services

Windows OEM

Xbox content + services

From here: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/microsoft-msft-earnings-q2-2...

Pretty diverse. Gaming, corporation/office stuff. What could they expand into next 3-5 years other than OpenAI? Hardware? They already failed at Zune/I doubt they want to make a phone.

> The devices are manufactured by original equipment manufacturers, including Pegatron, and are designed to be premium devices that set examples to Windows OEMs

Pegatron makes the Surface apparently. Not like Microsoft can cut Dell out of the loop and make their own laptop (not that I think that's high margin either...)

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