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Will they lobby for laws that prohibit Linux or make it difficult to install? What actions might they take in the future?

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Do you have a source for that? This chart says otherwise:

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the chart. 👍
Tomato tomato.
I wrote profits, and from the chart you show, clearly above 50% of their revenue is from Windows and derived products.
Last I heard the profit margin for Windows and Office was around 90%, AFAIK by far the highest of the business. So I'm pretty sure that combined with Server products Search and the part of gaming that is on Windows, it will be very close to 80% of the profits.

[–] jokro@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

But is that really coupled to windows? Take office for example, i think it also runs on MacOS and browsers. Why wouldnt they be able to make a Linux Version?