![]() ![]() ![]() This comes just weeks after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer came to San Francisco to unveil the new version of Office, which posted nearly $24 billion in sales during Microsoft's most recent fiscal year. Instead, 's launch was announced by Chris Jones, the head of Microsoft's Windows Live division, which makes web apps for Windows. In another sign that Microsoft isn't looking to its revamped email service mainly as a platform for ads, the company said was not being overseen by its money-losing online services division, which includes Bing and MSN. ![]() "We see our users as customers, not inventory," the spokesperson said. Most users likely will already be Microsoft customers, who as buyers of its software are the main source of the company's revenue, a company spokesperson told Wired in a statement Wednesday. Microsoft itself suggests that ad sales were not the crux of its business strategy. Your webmail provider becomes just another server and the suffix to your email address. If you sync your Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo mail through the iPhone's mail app, for instance, you don't see any ads in your inbox. Such restraint indicates webmail ads don't matter so much anymore anyway, given the volume of email exchanged on mobile platforms. ![]()
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