__/ [ John Bailo ] on Friday 14 July 2006 09:53 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Microsoft profit seen flat on 14% higher revenue
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>> | Meanwhile, sales at Microsoft's flagship Windows operations that produce
>> | the software used to power over 90% of the world's computers may have
>> | been lighter than hoped due to somewhat weaker-than-expected sales of
>> | personal computers, analysts noted.
>> `----
>>
>> Analysts are apparently using Windows and have not heard of GNU/Linux,
>> yet.
>> Stock down 1.7% in day's trading. It's approaching another low. Like
>> Scoble said, MSFT is "on a free fall".
>>
>>
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7BE67D6751%2D7D85%2D45B5%2DB909%2D803BC040C703%7D&source=blq%2Fyhoo&dist=yhoo&siteid=yhoo
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> And yet their quartly revenues are up 1B from last year.
>
> Go figure.
It's due to spendings (Internet services, fines, XBox 360 losses). I don't
think that the profit has actually declined for Microsoft... for quite some
time, as a matter of fact. The initial reaction to the announcement about
incraeased spendings had the stock drop 11% in just one day.
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