Microsoft Should Have Spun Off Xbox. Good Thing It Didn’t (Premium)

Many industry pundits have called on Microsoft to spin off Xbox over the years. And they were right to do so, too: Xbox has siphoned money out of Redmond at an alarming rate of several billion dollars per console generation since its inception.

But then something happened, as we say in the Microsoft community.

That something, of course, is cloud computing. And while its impact on gami...