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Microsoft's Pyrrhic Victory in the Netbook War
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| These are all incontrovertible signs that Microsoft simply hates the netbook
| sector, and wants it to go away. It is doing everything it can to dissuade
| users from buying them, manufacturers from making them, and everyone from
| naming them. The reason why it wants the netbook to vanish is simple: thanks
| to GNU/Linux, it makes no money in this market. Worse, netbooks are, indeed,
| cannibalising its profits in the notebook sector – which is why it is trying
| to redefine them as notebooks so that it can “re-align” consumers'
| expectations – that is, charge more.
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| So, yes, Microsoft is “winning” the netbook wars in one sense, but it is a
| purely Pyrrhic victory.
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| The fruits of that “victory” can be seen in its recent financial results,
| which showed the first-ever drop in revenue, part of which was attributable
| to weakening sales of its Windows division.
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Recent:
A Day to Remember: 23 April, 2009
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| And there's another reason why yesterday was significant: Microsoft announced
| what are probably its worst quarter results ever:
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| Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.65 billion for the third
| quarter ended March 31, 2009, a 6% decline from the same period of the prior
| year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the
| quarter were $4.44 billion, $2.98 billion and $0.33 per share, which
| represented an increase of 3% and declines of 32% and 30%, respectively, when
| compared with the prior year period.
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| Now, the global financial crisis certainly contributed to those figures, but
| I think there's a bigger underlying trend here, which is that the Microsoft
| money machine is faltering.
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