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Which business units should be broken up?

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Microsoft and Azure, Bing, Office 365

Amazon (the retailer portion) and AWS, and probably their logistics wing

None of those are owned by Google

And? We were talking about other businesses that should be split up in addition to Google. It would be weird if the only answers were Google-owned ventures...

Not in the context of my question. You are welcome to start your own comment thread.

This would kill xbox

Huh, why? Xbox is a great example of a business unit that should be self-sustainable.

Not that it matters.,Microsoft has done a spectacular job of killing Xbox even with its ability to sustain setting money on fire for the past decade. Xbox has been an unmitigated disaster since Xbox One.

Xbox has killed Xbox... have you not seen the sad state of affairs there for, I don't know, the past generation or two of consoles?

I don't disagree with your sentiment, other than the fact that it isn't literally dead… yet.

Xbox has been nothing more than a budget, low-spec, walled in gaming PC for about 1.5 console generations. It no longer has exclusive games, and the hardware (console and peripherals) are mediocre.

(PlayStation is almost in the same boat, except they have significant sales in regions where PC gaming is much smaller than in the US.)

Xbox is now a cross platform brand, and arguably bigger on PC than in the console market.

I've always thought is should be Azure, Office and XBox, and each should get their own copy of Windows that they could focus on different things while still being largely compatible. Don't know if XBox could survive on it's own.

For AWS we should split the platform and the managed services (no one should have to compete with "the platform". See elasticsearch, redis).

This also works for Amazon retail, they should not be allowed to sell on their own marketplace (they have to choose, they are either a marketplace or a seller)

Chrome, search/ads, youtube, consumer apps - gmail & docs etc.

Breaking up workspace would hinder Google in competing with Office and Zoho

Let me break out my violin for the trillion dollar transnational corporation.

Given that the likes of workspace and zoho were born out of Microsofts monopoly. I guess you should.

If your only reason for not breaking up a megacorp is that you want it it to compete with another megacorp...

¿Por qué no los dos?

That's fine with me. Let's do it so we can establish precedent then hopefully legislate this in Congress.

Baby steps bro, they will all have their moment in the sun soon enough.

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