{"id":969501,"date":"2025-10-25T11:45:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969501"},"modified":"2025-10-25T11:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:15:53","slug":"how-xbox-team-responded-to-accountability-margins-set-by-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/25\/how-xbox-team-responded-to-accountability-margins-set-by-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"How Xbox team responded to &#8216;accountability margins&#8217; set by Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is reportedly demanding significantly higher returns from its gaming division, Xbox, a mandate that has forced the unit to implement major strategic shifts. According to a recent report by Bloomberg, the aggressive push began in late 2023 when Microsoft chief financial officer Amy Hood implemented a strict new financial goal: Xbox must achieve 30% \u201caccountability margins\u201d (Microsoft\u2019s term for profit margins) across all its gaming operations.<\/p>\n<p>Why \u201830% margin\u2019 is a challenge for Microsoft gaming unit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is reportedly demanding significantly higher returns from its gaming division, Xbox, a mandate that has forced the unit to implement major strategic shifts. According to a recent report by Bloomberg, the aggressive push began in late 2023 when Microsoft chief financial officer Amy Hood implemented a strict new financial goal: Xbox must achieve 30% \u201caccountability margins\u201d (Microsoft\u2019s term for profit margins) across all its gaming operations. Why \u201830% margin\u2019 is a challenge for Microsoft gaming unit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}