The new Microsoft

Microsoft isn’t just “the Windows company” anymore. The company has positioned itself for the new era of tech, when services matter more than software licenses. Microsoft has fundamentally shifted its business model to build the 43-year-old company bigger than ever before.

Ana Kova for Quartz

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