http://www.osnews.com/story/14470/Microsoft_Earnings_Slip_Below_Targets Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:01:08 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?119252 http://osnews.com/thread?119252 oh dear a few million under a few BILLION... the pain! Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JackMayhoff) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119278 http://osnews.com/thread?119278 Trying to buy too many markets at once? Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sphinx) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119292 http://osnews.com/thread?119292 Interesting revenue breakdown at the bottom of the investor page:
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY06/earn_rel_q3_06.mspx#inc... Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sphinx) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119293 http://osnews.com/thread?119293 I think I'll celebrate by going to - Target :):)

When thier earning fall below junk bond status than that's the time to partyEdited 2006-04-28 23:21 Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (historyb) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119302 http://osnews.com/thread?119302 The stock had its biggest single-day decline since November 2000, lopping about $32 billion off its $281 billion market capitalization and reducing the value of Chairman Bill Gates's stake by about $3 billion.

Oy that'll leave a mark
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=businessNews&am... Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sphinx) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119310 http://osnews.com/thread?119310 If they act legally, no losses will happen to their revenues. God knows how many customers want to sue them for the losses and harm that happened to them from their OS and applications which they were forced to buy.Edited 2006-04-29 00:02 Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hraq) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119326 http://osnews.com/thread?119326 Ouch. I wonder if people are just tired of having money in a watered-down stock that never goes up year after year. Maybe they feel stupid. All the Wall Street whores and shills saying "just wait a bit more" eventually sound hollow.

And didn't OSNews once have a little article pushing the stock, or was that my addled imagination?Edited 2006-04-29 01:50 Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dogen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119331 http://osnews.com/thread?119331 The FUD marketing department will get a cut in there budget? Sat, 29 Apr 2006 02:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SlackerJack) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119339 http://osnews.com/thread?119339 If anything, MS might increase their marketing and sales budget to increase the hype and take money away from development. Sat, 29 Apr 2006 04:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (CaptainFlint) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119369 http://osnews.com/thread?119369 Looks like it's going to be a rotten year for Microsoft. Delaying Vista and the new Office has really blown it with the Wall Street mob who have nothing to do but kvetch and focus on the negatives. Microsoft have almost nothing in the cupboard to crow about between now and Christmas whereas Apple, Google and co. seem to have a stream of good-news new moves.

Essentially, Microsoft have said that they will spend a lot of extra money next year, hence lower profits. This could mean they are investing in some new ideas that will sock it to the competition, or it could mean that Microsoft are under such assault on all sides that the basic cost of keeping the ship going is rising inexorably.

Depends on your perspective. Bull or bear? Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (moleskine) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119371 http://osnews.com/thread?119371 The stock was at $24.30 in October last year. Their stock has been cycling between $23 and $29 for the last 4 years.

The stock market this year seems to be selling off like mad at any sign they might not get their divedends Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bakanekov3) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119390 http://osnews.com/thread?119390 Bugs can influrence stock by approximately 0.6% believe it or not.

They dont innovate. They are behind the competition, they hot air about WEB SERVICES yet Google is doing what MS hot air about. They need less hot air and more action.

Balmer leads by HATE which does not realy inspire its employees. Microsoft is a beached whale with its current structure and leadership.Edited 2006-04-29 11:51 Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JackMayhoff) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119398 http://osnews.com/thread?119398 Problem with Microsoft is that their stock is too much high. Everyone expects Microsoft to rule world, but it won't happen, simply. Apple are here. Google are here. IBM/Oracle and company are here for enterprise. Free desktop and "different culture" is rising - think OS X/Ubuntu/Fedora combo. IT feels alive again, thanks to many foreign companies and EU patent fight.

Xbox (both consoles) - still loss. Can't talk about technical stuff, but they don't earn any money with it.

Media Center stuff - forget it, Apple and Sony will definetly rule this market.

Live services - so far they have done worst job on this. They spend milions dollars to get very bad working search engine. But let's what they can do about it yet.

Vista - certainly Vista won't sold as good as 2000 or 98, maybe it will be even with XP. Lot of people will stick with XP

Embedded - they were kings for some time, but now lot of other devices and services rises and they want to top them all. Bad decision, as stock analysis says. I agree.

Microsoft won't go away but they definetly will lose their market value. Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pecisk) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119408 http://osnews.com/thread?119408 Windows only sells what it does via one path, OEM's and Enterprise licenses. The windows retail market is small compared to that, we just download it anyway.

Windows only got where it is via the OEM market. Ie., FORCED installs. Apple is getting more shelf presence in "consumer" computer stores. Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JackMayhoff) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119414 http://osnews.com/thread?119414 "Windows only got where it is via the OEM market. Ie., FORCED installs. "

Dont forget the market leverage they got from rampant pirating. Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119485 http://osnews.com/thread?119485 Over-rated and over-issued. The greedy bastards issued 11 BILLION shares during the naz mania. 11 billion of anything is bound to end up worthless.

Compare that to a stock that went UP 11% over the last few days - Apple. Apple has "only" 800 million shares on the market. So volume-wise, it's not a great beached whale and is able to actually go up on good prospects. Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dogen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119510 http://osnews.com/thread?119510 The FUD marketing department will get a cut in there budget?

They should get cuts. They've done a lousy job marketing Vista. Whether it's genius or a complete waste of time, they're supposed to be making it look like "the next big thing". Instead, an awful lot of people are saying "so what?" Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (microshag) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119531 http://osnews.com/thread?119531 quote Churchill:

"This is not the beginning of the end but the end of the beginning"

or something like that. Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chemical_scum) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119534 http://osnews.com/thread?119534 Earning go up earnings go down. its not a terribly surprising thing. Rolling out the 360 this early cost them a lot of money but they will regain it as things get rollign later this year and early next year. Just how it is. Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (stabilep) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119541 http://osnews.com/thread?119541 Oh, woe! Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (twenex) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119542 http://osnews.com/thread?119542 "This is not the beginning of the end but the end of the beginning"

But for whom?! Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (twenex) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119549 http://osnews.com/thread?119549 this comes to no suprise as they last month or less went through a reshuffle of there company in some departments . to hear there losing money might wake them up. they'll propably lose more money after Vista is released. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sabz) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119595 http://osnews.com/thread?119595 R&D costs just for three moths were >$1.6 billion. Even more amazing is that marketing accounted for more than twice the expenditures of R&D, $2.3B. It's hard to imagine spending that much on research and even more on advertising. How many facilities and people do they have working in purely research related activities? Is Windows Vista a "research" project for accounting purposes? Even so, at that rate they will have spent more than $5B on research over the course of the year. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gpierce) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119660 http://osnews.com/thread?119660 You´re absolutely right. These numbers are very telling.

I have tried to look more at it here:

http://www.bitsofnews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&am... Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Larz) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?119665 http://osnews.com/thread?119665 "This is not the beginning of the end but the end of the beginning"

But for whom?!

"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." - Winston Churchill

Speech given at the Lord Mayor's Luncheon, Mansion House, London, November 10, 1942. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lenrek) Comments