[RandomOpinion]

Visual Capitalist has a set of pie charts that show the breakdown of revenue streams for 5 of the top tech giants, including MS, Google, Amazon, etc. that illustrate exactly what you're talking about: http://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-5-tech-giants-make-bil...

Google is poorly diversified and even Amazon is not as well diversified as one might think.

[enitihas]

The link is an eye opener. Xbox contributes to 11% of MS revenue, and Window 9%. The world of personal computing has truly changed and Microsoft has really diverse revenue streams.

[uiri]

Keep in mind that that is consumer Windows. Active Directory and Exchange run on Windows Server and I'm sure every large business has a fleet of those (or has decided to ditch them in favour of Azure).

I wonder what falls in the "other" bucket. Visual Studio / MSDN come to mind. Perhaps Enterprise Services is split out from Azure & Windows Server. It looks like Dynamics might be reported separately from Office although I'd normally expect it to be grouped with it instead.

[stcredzero]

even Amazon is not as well diversified as one might think

I think Amazon's apparent lack of diversification is actually a lack of granularity in the data presented. The real question is how diversified Amazon Products is.

[auggierose]

Nice link! Also very interesting that while Apple and Microsoft are clearly Tech companies, Google and Facebook are clearly Media companies.

[ec109685]

Why would you say that? Google isn’t purely monetizing it’s own content pages like a media company. Selling ads doesn’t make oneself a media company.

[Santosh83]

Does anyone know what constitutes the 'Other' portion of Microsoft's pie chart, accounting for 18% of their share of revenue?

[GuB-42]

- Development tools (Visual Studio...)

- SQL Server

- Video games (Halo, Minecraft...)

- LinkedIn

- Hardware like mice, keyboards, hololens, ...

- Probably many others

[uiri]

SQL Server would be part of Server & Azure. Not sure if Video Games are part of XBox or not.

[Theodores]

Or it could be the work building out SkyNet for the NSA.

The 18% other should be Windows Phone but it isn't.

[greggman]

awesome link. anyone know similar links for other companies? would love to know Sony, Konami, Panasoic, and other companies have have extremely diverse interests

[trhway]

FB earnings to revenue just waiting for somebody to come and say "your earnings is my opportunity"