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.

    • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Don’t forget office I think office is a big deal for schools. That an entire education area monopolized.

      • Patch@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        11 months 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.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      213·
      11 months ago

      What cloud services, office? I find it hard to believe windows OS isn’t possible

        • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Sorry, Profitable, brain fart.

          Is there a source on the OS not being profitable?

          • Gerudo@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            11 months 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·
        11 months 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
        21·
        11 months 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.