Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 26th Oct 2007 15:31 UTC
Strong sales of new and old products alike led Microsoft to its fastest first-quarter growth in eight years, with the company reporting growth in all five business segments and both revenue and earnings per share that beat analyst expectations. Revenue for the fiscal quarter ended Sept. 30 was up 27 percent at USD 13.76 billion compared to USD 10.81 billion a year ago, Microsoft said Thursday. Consensus estimates from Thomson First Call analysts were for the company to generate revenue of USD 12.57 billion. Microsoft's EPS for the quarter was USD 0.45, which also soundly beat Thomson First Call consensus estimate of USD 0.39. Net income for the quarter was USD 4.29 billion, a 23 percent increase over the USD 3.48 billion reported a year ago. At USD 5.92 billion, operating income for the quarter also had double-digit percentage growth: an increase of more than 25 percent over operating income reported for the same period last year of USD 4.47 billion.
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Window's greatest strengths are not in the OS but in the 3rd party ecosystem compatibility. Well, whoop-de-doo, we could have that with Linux, were it simply in the same business position
'whoop-de-doo' 'we could have that with Linux'
Yeah, sure you 'could'.
It's so simple to do that it's not worthy of any other enterprise, private or open source, to replicate a feat that rewards with trillions of dollars every quarter LOL
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I've got no particular beef with Microsoft, but you'd think they'd be able to take all this money and give us an operating system *significantly* better than OS X and Ubuntu -- yet, Window's greatest strengths are not in the OS but in the 3rd party ecosystem compatibility. Well, whoop-de-doo, we could have that with Linux, were it simply in the same business position. Vista is not worth the price they're asking if that represents the best roadmap they can derive from our payment. They simply benefit from having gotten in the right place at the right time, and while I give a nod to Bill and company for that, their practice of milking that position for these insanely wide margins and not delivering on giving us a product that reciprocates their profits, well, why do they deserve our loyalty as customers?
Edited 2007-10-26 19:06