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In article , Gutless Umbrella
Carrying Sissy wrote:
> Your Name wrote in
> news:250120140949594933%YourName@YourISP.com:
> > In article , Gutless
> > Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
> >> Doc O'Leary wrote in
> >> news:droleary-C663C1.11475024012014@news.eternal-september.org:
> >>
> >> > Even Microsoft seems to be caught with its pants down.
> >>
> >> Yeah, it's so embarassing to post record profits when everybody
> >> says your company is dying. Embarassing for somebody, anyway.
> >
> > With the exception of perhaps the Xbox, Microsoft's products
> > have been at best had a luke-warm reception over the last few
> > years ... Zune, Vista, Surface, Windows 8, etc., etc.
> >
> > Much of Microsoft's profits come from selling Windows to the
> > makers of new computers, whether or not that maker actually
> > sells the computer is a very different measuring stick.
>
> And yet, "The US-based technology titan reported net income of $6.56
> billion on revenue that hit a record high of $24.52 billion in the
> quarter that ended December 31."
>
> Depite losses on the Surface and X-Box One product lines, and a 3%
> slump in Windows sales.
As I said, currently Microsoft makes money selling Windows to computer
makers ... but whether those computer makers can actually sell the
computers is irrelevant to Microsoft's profit since the money is
already in Microsoft's bank account.
Eventually of course, the decreasing sales of computers will mean
Microsoft will have to change tack or disappear, and that's exactly
what thye've been trying to do more recently. Unfortunately for them
(and luckily fo everyone else) Microsoft's attempts at other product
lines have been fairly dismal ... the Xbox being the main exception.
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