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| Microsoft reports quarterly results |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-07-19 23:57:19 |
| "Microsoft today announced quarterly revenue of $18.06 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2012. Operating income and loss per share for the quarter were $192 million and $0.06 per share. The financial results reflect the previously announced non-cash, non-tax-deductible income statement charge of $6.19 billion for the impairment of goodwill and the deferral of $540 million of revenue related to the Windows Upgrade Offer." |
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| RE: Comment by andih |
| By Mikaku on 2012-07-21 21:17:55 |
| Agreed. |
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| RE[5]: Microsoft reports first loss in history |
| By zima on 2012-07-26 22:45:23 |
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Old consumer Windows, while for a long time much more viable or even better than most alternatives ( http://www.osnews.com/thread?522... ), were still kinda rubbish. The world is better off without them. Corps use the "bloat" of all the included tools a lot; you simply don't have to use them; them being available doesn't really impact performance, the bling still doesn't matter (plus, win8 is kinda more snappy) It was in the times of Ballmer that some nice new things were pushed through (Ribbon doesn't seem like much of a copycat; Xbox seems to have most healthy ~indy tooling & ecosystem around it, and recently innovates most in the field, with Kinect; the table kind of Surface is very theirs), or things that perhaps were painful but necessary (the technical overhaul of Vista, largely responsible for Vista SE being the most adored OS evah) |
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| RE: Comment by andih |
| By zima on 2012-07-26 23:06:42 |
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the Microsoft hatred is a disease - Linus Torvalds. MS largely succeeding in their "a PC in every home" goal, the overall economies of scale that Wintel brought, is largely what gave you this nice, inexpensive, powerful machine that you use, MS OS or not. Other paths weren't nearly so certain to bring this toy of yours so quickly (or even not at all http://www.osnews.com/thread?522... ). Oh and with internet, IE was at some point a blessing & it won because of being a much better browser. |
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