Microsoft Spends $9 Billion On Research, Focuses On Cloud

superapecommando writes to share that Microsoft appears to be going all-out on research in the coming year, with a great focus on the cloud. They're supposedly planning to spend $9.5 billion in R&D; that's $3 billion more than the next-closest tech company. "'Especially in light of the tough difficult macroeconomic times that we're coming out of, we chose to really lean in and double down on our innovation,' [Microsoft COO Kevin] Turner said. Turner contended that Microsoft has more cloud services than any other company, ranging from its consumer email service to hosted enterprise products such as its Dynamics CRM (customer relationship management) system to its Azure cloud operating system. 'We're going to change and reinvent our company around leading in the cloud.'"

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Re:In other words...

[Reason58]

"...We're not sure our OS and Office monopoly will last forever, so we'd really like to see if we could actually turn a profit on something else."

If you aren't growing, you're dying. True for any business.

and patent applications

[H4x0r Jim Duggan]

That money is also paying their patent lawyers to make patent thickets too.

Re:In other words...

[zero0ne]

You're either a 1 or a 0, alive or dead...