That’s amazing, considering how virtually every new venture they’ve tried during the past decade or so has been a failure in the consumer/residential space. The original XBOX, and the XBOX 360 were successful, but the the Sony Play station 4 is totally killing the XBOX ONE in Sales thus far.
They still maintain the ‘old reliable’, which is corporate IT. Microsoft is the core of virtually EVERY medium to large business IT Infrastructure in the world, and it functions very well. Keeping it secure is the key.
Microsoft is in virtually anything IT related. It may not be number one in everything it does, but it is there.