Re: Microsoft fourth-quarter profit up 42 percent!
- From: Hobbes <Hobbes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:21:39 -0400
Ringmaster wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:08:46 +0100, "Gordon"
<gordonbparker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23P%238akH6IHA.5012@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxStrong sales of Office and Windows software help fuel profit!
The division responsible for Microsoft's longtime surefire profit engine,
the Windows operating system, posted a 16 percent rise in earnings to
$3.22 billion in the quarter!
The company sold 50 million Vista licenses in the quarter, for a total
of 190 million since the operating system's January 2007 launch!
Windows Vista and Office 2007 - A HUGH SUCCESS!
Feel the WOW:
http://www.microsoft.com/india/vistasongs/WoW%20is%20Now%20-%20full%20song.mp3
Windows Vista - The best operating system in the universe!
But the results are WORSE than expected, leading to a FALL in stocks value.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7513159.stm
Microsoft has sucked as an investment for the last decade. I've held
on to a small holding, (a few hundred shares) but I've dumped the rest
a long time ago. Several reasons, Gates' departure, the rise of the
idiot Steve Ballmer and the growing realization that Microsoft's time
in the sun is fading. Microsoft really isn't a growth company anymore.
The way they tried and failed to take over Yahoo is just the latest in
a long list of failures. Even Gates and Ballmer have admitted Vista
sucks and isn't what they hoped it would be. Office, once a flagship
product now is blah at best, and for most free alternatives are just
as good. On the gaming side Microsoft can't get it's act together.
What's left to excite investor's? Another version of Windows in the
next 18 months? Oh wow, I can hardly wait.
As far as profit being up, so what? Microsoft while being a cash rich
corporation pays a piss poor dividend of only 1.74% or about half of
what you can get with a bank CD with no risk. For the clueless, a
corporation that has a market cap of $237 billion to be so cheap
speaks volumes.
Much smaller corporations pay a much higher dividend and offer a much
better growth potential. What's always so damn funny to me is the same
conclusion can be reached about the dopes that post here regardless if
the topic is computers or investing, MOST KNOW NOTHING!
I agree with MS blowing chunks on the gaming side.
The standard PS3 comes with HDMI out...enabling 1080p on my TV.
The standard Xbox 360 comes with component out ... 1080i on my set.
For those that can't "see" the difference...get glasses!
My last 8 purchases were all PS3 games
.
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