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[–] SuperSynthia@lemmy.world 137 points 7 months ago (25 children)

So Microsoft is one of the most valuable companies in the entire world. They have a stranglehold on corporate America, power a huge the cloud infrastructure, hold one of the largest sources of telemetry/user data, and are the defacto standard of PC environments worldwide.

Why in the fuck do they need to pivot to ads? I’m genuinely curious. Even if they lost 50% of their entire business they would still be one of the most profitable companies in the world.

[–] lykso@tiny.tilde.website 1 points 7 months ago

@SuperSynthia @dvdnet62 Because capitalism demands infinite growth.

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