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• You’ll be amazed to learn how Microsoft really makes dough

  Posted on July 1, 2024 at 02:44 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  If you think the sale of Windows software is Microsoft’s primary source of revenue, you’re in for a big surprise when you see the way the Redmond corporate giant actually earns money.

  As of the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2024, more than 56% of the company’s revenue — easily a majority — is generated by Microsoft’s cloud services, including Azure Server, Office cloud services, and other online income streams.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.27.0, 2024-07-01).

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• LinkedIn deliberately scrambles résumé PDFs, experts say

  Posted on March 22, 2021 at 01:08 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  ISSUE 18.11 • 2021-03-22

  The AskWoody Newsletters will not be published on March 29, 2021. We’ll see you again on April 5, 2021.

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  LinkedIn — the foremost social network for working professionals, with 760 million members in more than 200 countries — constantly changes the format of its PDF résumés to make it hard for companies to search for possible job applicants, according to human-resource consultants.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.11.0 (2021-03-22).
  This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.11.F (2021-03-22).

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• Microsoft buys LinkedIn for $26.2 billion cash

  Posted on June 13, 2016 at 11:05 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Mind-boggling. We’ll see lots of analysis, but it looks like Steve Ballmer’s company just bought Reid Hoffman’s company.

  LinkedIn  runs on its own servers, not on Azure or AWS.

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