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> Windows Vista and XP may shoulder most of the blame for Microsoft
> Corp.'s mediocre second-quarter results announced today, but few of
> the software maker's divisions were shining beacons....
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> [Some bright spots, but...]
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> A $100 million drop in the sale of Zune devices contributed to a 60%
> decrease in the entertainment and devices division's operating income,
> to $151 million....
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> Microsoft's weakest financial performer was its online services
> business, which continued its money-losing ways...The loss widened in
> part because of a $137 million increase in cost of revenue, as
> Microsoft made payouts to users who tried its Live Search site, which
> competes with Google Inc.'s search.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126610
You're linking to Microsoft-sympathetic authors who work for IDC (IDG is part
of it), which receives heaps of money from Microsoft. The truth is even more
gloomy than they put it.
Eric Lai runs the "regarding Redmond" blog.
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~~ Best of wishes
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http://Schestowitz.com | GNU is Not UNIX | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
http://iuron.com - proposing a non-profit search engine
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