(For comparison, HP Enterprise has about $28B in revenue with negative growth and is worth $23B. At current growth rates, Alphabet's Cloud segment will surpass HP in revenue in 2-3 years.)
I've been at companies that have used other forms of internal corporate email, and all of them are worse. Open source/roll-your-own, On-prem Exchange, Cloud-based Office365, what have you... all of them suck.
to any curious, you can do `dig example.com MX +short` to see their mail MX records.
example:
dig stripe.com MX +shortA lot of engineers work on ads teams. I heard it once before, but search is Google's core. Without search, their ad-serving isn't very profitable. Everything else is a moat around it - Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Chrome. Most media companies are built around the advertising model.
I can't say that you're wrong. Enterprise software does generate a lot of revenue and Microsoft does support it fairly well. Microsoft has also had some wins as of late.
A lot of Google's revenue comes from ads, but I wouldn't label it a "single horse". It's really a stable of horses if you're counting YouTube #2 most visited site and the other revenues its generating from it's G Suite, people paying for Drive, cloud services, etc.
I may be blinded by my bias toward Google products, but it's also crazy that I don't use a single Microsoft product at the moment -- I don't boot my old PC with Windows. I don't own an X-Box. I don't own a Surface. I don't use Word or any of the Office software anymore. I don't use Azure or VS Code as my editor as a software engineer. However, I do know a lot of .NET developers.
Enterprise is just the tip of the iceberg.
Almost anybody who can't afford to buy Apple's expensive products(Which is like everybody) has to buy Microsoft.
Also with the latest hardware goof ups, the top end customers could be soon going to Microsoft.
Search and Youtube seem to be ad hosting platforms, and "ad platfom" seems it would be from ads. The Android ad revenue slice seems to be missing from Google.