Bill Gates: I absolutely support Nadella in dumping Xbox

Yeah MS will never drop the Xbox brand. Especially now, they want return return return on that investment.

Okay. So what's the big deal?

Lems are such a sad bunch

So much crying and aggressive lem damage control in this thread lol. It's funny to see all the lems come out of hiding to protect their precious Xbone lol. Dat desperation.

So...

"But Gates said he didn’t foresee either Bing, the company’s search engine division, or Xbox, its gaming division, as potential stand-alone companies because they are part of Microsoft’s long-term strategy"

Salt_The_Fries: I absolutely support mods taking a dump on this dump of a thread.

I must say, you are by far the most intelligent person on SW. All hail the ghostwarrior786!

Just put that PS4 out of your ass...

Sony is great! Get on your knees and worship the Sony Gods. The company by gamers, for gamers. LOL Hermits/Lemmings/Sheep

Yes, bow down and accept their rootkits

'put that PS4' u mean 'pull that PS4'

thank you for making that grammar mistake on purpose so i that can showcase my intellectual prowess to those who doubted it

Not potential cuz nobody would but that pos.

Charlie Munger, Berkshire’s vice chair and Buffett’s longtime business partner, was asked by Claman if he approved of redistributing wealth to decrease economic inequality.

The 90-year-old Munger, renowned for his candor, replied simply, “Not much.”

Buffett, asked the same question, said, “More than Charlie.”

Gates answered, “About the same as Warren.”

That's an interesting little back-and-forth there.

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TC, really? Come on, guy.

the only reason the Xbox brand has lasted this long it's because of M$' deep pockets, so whoever buys this shite will only lose money.

Xbox does not have to make a dime to be an important part of MS's long term enterprise strategy. Pure speculation follows:

Bing, windows phone, Zune, and Xbox are all about interface. Lets say in five years you have to choose an enterprise operating system for the seven hundred computers in your school. All the options, for the most part, will accomplish the same thing. One however has the same or a similar GUI as the first/second most popular video game console in America. If you pick that one, most kids who sits down at the computer will be able to intuit how to use the machine with little guidance. Do you pick the one you will have to teach kids from the ground up, or the one they will be able to mostly figure out on their own?

In ten years you are making the same choice, only for an entry level office building like a call center. Do you pick the one that the average 18-23 year old has been using at home to play video games, and at school, or the one you will have to spend money training them to use?

Five years after that, you are doing the same for a more professional environment that caters to people in their late twenties and early thirties. Same question, same obvious answer.

Microsoft doesn't care about gaming. They care about every person in the developed world having a familiarity with their interface. Entertainment devices and home computers, tablets, and phones groom entire generations, making their enterprise software more and more attractive. Maybe the consumer branch makes little to no money. Maybe they even take a loss. It however entrenches their software deeper and deeper, because businesses do not have to teach people how to use a computer if they stick with MS products.

This makes sense. As others have said, Gates appears to be showing support for the new CEO. Gates stated that he can't see them as standalone, due to being a part of MS' long-term strategy.

"Gates, the founder and former CEO of Microsoft, said he’s been helping new CEO Satya Nadella transition into his new leadership role and that he would support Nadella if the new CEO proposed a spinoff of one of Microsoft’s units.

But Gates said he didn’t foresee either Bing, the company’s search engine division, or Xbox, its gaming division, as potential stand-alone companies because they are part of Microsoft’s long-term strategy."

and that he would support Nadella if the new CEO proposed a spinoff of one of Microsoft’s units.

But Gates said he didn’t foresee either Bing, the company’s search engine division, or Xbox, its gaming division, as potential stand-alone companies because they are part of Microsoft’s long-term strategy."

and that he would support Nadella if the new CEO proposed a spinoff of one of Microsoft’s units.

The xbox one isn't going any where because is on MS long term plans,but if is gone Billgates is ok with it.

Maybe in the short-term, but I think that would largely be determined by the success of their (whoever bought it) strategy.

I definitely see the Bone sticking around for year 10, but you gotta admit its legitimately eye-opening how quickly the company sees cutting off units, especially for one such as Xbox One, viable after failing to generate the impact they were hoping it would make.

Its also interesting how the company places Bing and Xbox under the same "doom and gloomz " category and how both units seem to have become such hot topics behind closed doors. Perhaps compared to the success of PS4 and how Microsoft has been throwing the money-hats around... they somewhat find the One lacking?

They might have opted for "chunkier" results in return.

Or they could be over generalizing. It happens to companies too.

Oh look morons, they just propagate every where don't they?

""Gates, the founder and former CEO of Microsoft, said he’s been helping new CEO Satya Nadella transition into his new leadership role and that he would support Nadella if the new CEO proposed a spinoff of one of Microsoft’s units.

But Gates said he didn’t foresee either Bing, the company’s search engine division, or Xbox, its gaming division, as potential stand-alone companies because they are part of Microsoft’s long-term strategy.""

I'm not seeing Bill Gates saying yeah go ahead spin off xbox we don't need it anymore.
God you sheen's are such idiots.

@Locutus_Picard: This doesn't mean dumping the XBox you moron. lol!! He's talking about growing the brand in other directions. Nothing would happen to the XBox One. Cows are so stupid. This is actually good news as it would bring more people to the XBox brand.

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Kettle black. LOL!! Look in the mirror. Half your lips are on Sony's ass and the other half is on the PS4.

Possibly more cable box integration, it is pretty exciting.

Really? So selling 80+ million and selling more software than Sony doesn't mean anything? What does that say about Sony? You know, that company that LOST all of it's profits from the PS1 AND PS2 with the PS3. Is the ONLY reason the PS4 is still around because of the huge success of the PS1 and PS2?

Cows will be cows

You know cows are pathetic when one it's biggest supporters actually understood the link.

For once I have nothing to refute in a Tormentos post.

You know xbox fail when people at MS dont want the crap themselves lol

Same here.

They were talking about potentially dissolving the Xbox division before the Xbox1 even launched. In the immediate future they aren't going to be cutting shit, that's obvious. If you want my honest opinion, gaming is just not a high profit industry and not high stability and MS is better off investing elsewhere "but" at this point, there is zero reason to even consider selling it off. It'll do more damage than good to their reputation since Xbox is one of their only modern entertainment products that actually gained traction as a popular brand that can compete in the market (their issue was trying to push Kinect and non gaming entertainment . . . because they are idiots but that's another story entirely) which they consistently failed at with other products. I'm 100% sure the PS4 success is not related to this at all. The doom and gloom is pretty much none existent for right now at least.

I feel like there's a point here, but no idea what it's supposed to be

Agreed. If they had read anything, they would be shocked at the notion of Bing being part of Microsoft's "long term plans." That's just weird!

Jesus, a lot of name calling in this thread.

Gaf is still down, oh lawd.

hahahaha, teaching cows reading comprehension is damage controll. I'm not even a lemon, PC MASTERRACE FTW.

I like turtles

Your thread title makes it seem like a quote, yet I fail to see where he said dumping.

Yeah, cause it wouldn't make for a good bait topic. OP fails to mention that Satya isn't even willing to spin off the Xbox Division. Basically... What I get from all this is, Bill Gates is basically willing to support Satya Nadella in just about anything that may come up.

I'm not sure how people could have missed that. That idea has been around for years... then again some people are like investors. They fail to see the big picture and will gladly turn a short term gain for a long term loss.

Yup.

Bill Gates: 'I'm just glad it's not Steve Ballmer'

First I'm not the from from America or England, second use capitals and put the "i" in a capital.

Now: 'Pull' that PS4 out your ass sir.

They don't wana taste the salt me thinks

So it's safe to assume the TC reads at a kindergarten level?

we're taking the word of a reporter from a network that champions anti-intellectualism and who can't even spell spin off right

I think you're referring to yourself. I'm not the one doing fanboy defense force like you.

Every day you're in SW, damage controlling for M$. It's a pity they don't pay you for all the overtime you put in lol.

I bet another NPD thread comes out we won't see your ass in there but anytime there's negative Xbone news we can always count on you to show up.

whoa BOY...i almost thought this was going to be a bad day for Lems after reading the title. but then i read the OP, and link, and saw that title was weighted cow BS and felt a wave of relief.

really though...shouldnt the title of his thread have been changed by now. its misleading completely, its not even a direct quote from B Gates. and he was just showing support for the new CEO, saying that he supports him and any choices he makes. then continues on to say how Xbox is in MS LONG TERM plans.

There's no need to take this place that seriously.

I guess cows don't know what long term strategy is.

Ironic considering the PS3's success was based on exactly that

Lems like him take this place so seriously hence the reason they are so easy to troll lol.

Preach.

talk about losing money sony also lose their ps1 and ps2 profit thanks to ps3 fiasco ,and now they started again from 0 with ps4

Yep, get rid of that trash. Stop consoles ruining FPS. Bring back dtreamcast.

Win win.

And I reiterate my previous statement that I was ridiculed in the other thread on something similar to this for:

But but Xbox is Bill Gates' Baby. He'd NEVER do something like selling off Xbox... Yeah right Lol