Posted on 10/26/2007 7:23:43 PM PDT by jdm
ping.
Not that great, either. Notice their wording:
“But Microsoft executives were clearly the most pleased with the performance of the company’s Client unit, which has shipped 88 million copies of Vista to date — almost double the number of XP copies that had shipped in the equivalent period of XP’s product cycle.”
Shipped. Not sold, shipped. The numbers on the internet aren’t adding up if they’d *sold* that many, so they’re claiming “shipped” now.
Just think how much better it would have been if the had a decent product.
Rumors of Microsoft’s death have been greatly exaggerated!
Three cheers for American, commercial software!
I’m using Vista, it’s working fine after I disabled the default double secret probation security checking.
I have to say that it’s a nice incremental improvement over XP.
Nice job Microsoft, again.
Rightly or wrongly, the market disagrees. They added a whopping $15 billion to their market cap today.
Man, if I only had the foresight to buy Microsoft stock in the 80s....
“Microsoft Revenue Tops $13 Billion in First Quarter”
Yeah but what was Apple’s?
Tech is firing on all cyliders at the moment. As are commodities. It is still 1/4th the value with the PE ratio it was in 2000 so we may still have some upside to go. In this market though, the ones beating/crushing earnings are tech so they may still be fairly/undervalued overall. I highly recommend shorting Chinese stock at this point though!
#2 Apple had revenue of 6.22 billion (less than half MSFT) on profit of 904 million (25% of MSFT)
Considering this is the first release in almost five years and it is the best they could do it is really disappointing. I have the Ultimate version on my HP and I cannot say it was anywhere worth the investment. I am considering going back to XP.
Microsoft has lost its way and I am afraid it is destined to further decline. Yes, Microsoft had a good quarter as almost all new PC’s are shipped with Vista but most corporations are replacing Vista with XP on the machines they receive.
Unless they rewrite the operating system, as they promised this time but did not deliver, I cannot see them maintaining their lead for long. Too bad.
Wish I could use an Apple at the office but the IT staff will not support them. Guess it is job security.
Eventually MSFT will be like a very profitable version of SAP, except they will have both a niche enterprise market plus a consumer electronics division.
No doubt!
I see these results as proof that there are a lot of people (and businesses) out there willing to pay good money for inferior products.
Apple's Reality Distortion Field™ is nothing compared to Microsoft's Mind Control Ray™
Geesh it looks like a yearbook photo from some geek commune.
Hahah Wouldn't ya love to travel back in time and have that picture to show around and say, These people are going to change the world and make Gutenberg look like a piker.
You would be locked into a rubber room before you could say "Billionaire Bill Gates"
You suffer from the 6th deadly sin: Jealosy.
No, you misunderstand me. I like Windows and I marvel at what Gates and Crew have accomplished (I grew up in a world without home computers and the internet).
I am just in awe of how geeky they all looked even by late 70s early 80s styles/standards.
I mean honestly if you hand walked around with that picture and told people this bunch was going to be a major force in changing the way the world communicates and they would become some of the richest people in the world, 99 out of 100 people you told would have laughed in your face.
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