Also dee the following:
Making Sense of Microsoft's Third Quarter Financial Results
"Firstly, they deferred $1.2 billion of XP sales from Q1 and Q2 2007 -- sales
that qualified for the upgrade coupon -- rolling it into this result."
http://www.yafla.com/dforbes/2007/04/27.html
"Don't believe the hype"
http://kaiwai.blogspot.com/2007/04/dont-believe-hype-ive-read-through.html
It's simple really. Over the years, Microsoft has been very profitable. It
accumulated mounds of cash. Now that it struggles to keep up with technology
it has tried to suppress for over a decade (Free software and Web-based
software), the company uses that cash to make it seem as though it's very
much alive.
The WinTrolls seem to have missed the fact that Microsoft fools many people
here. The company has lost over half of its hidden cash reserves in just two
years.
Software Notebook: Microsoft's cash pile isn't what it used to be
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| But Microsoft has taken a series of steps to reduce its cash
| balance. Specifically, by Microsoft's count, the company has
| paid out nearly $100 billion through dividends and repurchasing
| its own stock in the past five years.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/309852_software02.html
The XBox division alone has lost over $5 billion and still loses hundreds of
millions per quarter.
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