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No it isn't
by howdyhowdy123 1y ago
No it isn't
- SgtBastard 1y agoTechnically you are correct but the commenter you’re responding to means that with the amount of Western Governments spend on MS products and services, the are a d facto (if not de jure) state backed enterprise.
- 1718627440 1y agoYes, but the power play seams to be more like MS backes several states.
- os2warpman 1y agoUS government spending is (for now) easy to track, and you can get totals for spending by corporate entity. In total across the entire US federal government, $518.8 million was paid to Microsoft for products and services in 2024. That is approximately 0.21% of their total annual revenue. I assert that the threshold for "state sponsored" is well in excess of 0.21% of annual revenue. Federal Spending: https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/dd77b7c3-663e-cb91-229f-5766a50e9b7f-P/all https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/dd77b7c3-663e-cb91-229... Microsoft Annual Revenue: https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar24/index.html https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar24/index.html
- monkeyelite 1y agoIf you look at Ford and Intel you would find similar numbers - but they are clearly quasi state entities.
- hx8 1y agoHow much money have states and local governments spent on Microsoft products and services? How much money has Microsoft collected from companies that are providing products and services to US governmental agencies? Government spending is not easy to track. This doesn't even begin to touch on non-monetary benefits Microsoft receives with government influence.
- howdyhowdy123 1y agoNow you are really starting to bend over backwards. The claim was that MS was a state enterprise. It's still not even close.
- hx8 1y agoI'm mostly adding context to the statistic that Microsoft makes 0.21% of its revenue from the federal government, and arguing against the sub-claim that government spending is easy to track.
- howdyhowdy123 1y agoExactly
- treyd 1y agoMS has deep ties into the state department and intelligence apparatus that few other companies do. Just as deep as the defense contractors who have a near monopoly-monopsony relationship with the federal government. You can argue about how exclusive they are in particular qualities but the scale and depth they operate at makes their relationship approximate the relationship Huawei does with the Chinese government. They're just what state-backed enterprises look like under liberal-ish capitalism.
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- howdyhowdy123 1y agoI don't think you know what state backed enterprise means. You or anybody who spouts this.