Gaming, cloud services, consultancy, security (yes really, look at how they've taken down botnets), etc.
Also the whole "making a metric shitload of money, despite everyone apparently hating their products for nearly half a century" thing.
Windows 8 was bold, and I liked it a lot. But it was such a massive change in a market that is better suited to a more incremental approach. Shit, we all know those older relatives who lost their shit when IE got a slightly different icon. Windows 8 basically caused them to spontaneously combust.
Also the whole "making a metric shitload of money, despite everyone apparently hating their products for nearly half a century" thing.
Windows 8 was bold, and I liked it a lot. But it was such a massive change in a market that is better suited to a more incremental approach. Shit, we all know those older relatives who lost their shit when IE got a slightly different icon. Windows 8 basically caused them to spontaneously combust.