In the mobile market? How about anything next-generation web? Social media? Microsoft doesn't seem to be doing well anywhere except the increasingly unimportant desktop and Office suite space.
It's easy to bash on them, but they make quality products in a diverse range of markets. Sure they fail and fail big, but who the hell doesn't? If you have made anything successful, you've probably failed 100s of times. It comes with the territory.
Did you have any examples that contradicted me? All of the above are losing MS money in a BIG way.
You want to be careful with that metric. You know the cleaners don't make much money, why not fire them?
Anyway, my statistic wasn't really meant to be taken that seriously, just proof that server is actually making money over here.
I suspect that they will probably announce service based offering (consulting) type in the long run (5-10 years maybe?) because they might not be able to sustain high margins of profit on Office and Windows sales due to competition and alternatives.
Right now they don't seem to have a great vision either, so we'll see were they are heading...
Even Rackspace's Net Income is only 10 million dollars, coming off of 178 million dollars worth of revenue.
New businesses take time to grow.