Microsoft has two products: Windows and Office. The rest is just their marketing strategy to sell these two products.
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from a customer perspective, yes, they offer a lot of products. But they have the monopoly in only two areas: operating systems and word processors. So everything they do is to maintain their monopolies. Sometimes they make money off it (Azure, Xbox), other times do not (Bing)
Yes, this makes sense, the 2 core products are allowing them to try to explore and grow in new areas but the entire org is propped up by the 2 products. Do you have any insights as to why they report office and windows licenses under those divisions? Is it to bolster the numbers?
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mostly they organized their divisions around which context the products were used http://www.asymco.com/2011/09/29/comparing-revenues-apple-and-microsoft/ … and after Nadella took over the reorganized it again to give more prominence to the shift in cloud computing
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