The World’s Largest Software Company Wants More Hardware

Date: Oct 13 2012

Filed under: Company News

MicrosoftMicrosoft (MSFT) has been the world’s largest software company for decades. Now it wants some more skin in the hardware game.

“It’s important to recognize a fundamental shift under way in our business,” CEO Steve Ballmer writes in the company’s 2012 letter to shareholders. “We see ourselves as a devices and services company.”

Now this doesn’t mean that Microsoft is giving up on software. The vast majority of the $73.7 billion in revenue it generated in its most recent fiscal year came from…

The World’s Largest Software Company Wants More Hardware originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-10-12T13:20:00Z.

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