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>Selling Xbox and Bing will only seal MS's faith as another IBM. Windows Phone and Surface will stagnate (even more) and eventually they will have to be let go too.

These types of comments sealing the fate of MS comes up at any post relating to Microsoft. However its far from the truth, Microsoft isn't going anywhere as much as Adobe, whether someone likes it or not. Xbox is one of the major revenue earning division for MS (not from console but from games, digital rights and live) and it is going thrive despite their PR clusterf*ck with Xbox One. Windows Phone and Surface slowing gaining momentum and WP is starting to see large market shares outside of U.S.



> Xbox is one of the major revenue earning division for MS

This isn't even remotely accurate. Xbox barely draws a profit in comparison to it's office, windows, and services groups.




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