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REPEAT: Revenues up, profits down!
Tic is right on the money. The real story is that MS is losing it. They are selling more and enjoying it less. Products like Linux and OpenOffice.org are forcing them to cut killer deals with key clients and, in the process, wiping out their profits. In the future lies much more of the same. And that is why their stock price is going nowhere. They are at their nadir as a corporation, and ahead of them lies a steep, slippery slope ... down. Tough luck for MS. They don't realize it yet, but their development model has been out innovated. They are struggling to catch up, with gimmicks like shared-source, etc., but it is too little, too late. Their future does not look good.
Posted by: George Mitchell   Posted on: 01/23/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Nail in what coffin?  marksashton | 01/22/04
X-Box  voska | 01/23/04
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shoofly -- just trying to point out...  pschroeder@... | 01/23/04
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exactly  JWatson77 | 01/23/04
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sure  JWatson77 | 01/23/04
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Wonderful news!!!  emartin_z | 01/22/04
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Yeah ...  toomuchgreeatea@... | 01/22/04
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If my rate of hiring was measured...  SloooeShflu | 01/22/04
shoofly -- so what you meant to say was...  pschroeder@... | 01/23/04
So that's more or less than IBM or Sun  FilledOut | 01/24/04
Of course I did...  emartin_z | 01/22/04
Where did you get that from?  joseb_z | 01/22/04
Answer...  emartin_z | 01/23/04
Microsoft - Dance with who Brung Ya.  bhafner | 01/22/04
remember  JWatson77 | 01/23/04
Revenue up, Profits down  tic swayback | 01/23/04
Get Real  ShadeTree | 01/23/04
Really?  tic swayback | 01/23/04
In the current economy!  ShadeTree | 01/23/04
Certainly, but...  tic swayback | 01/23/04
REPEAT: Revenues up, profits down!  George Mitchell | 01/23/04
REPEAT AFTER ME: Revenues equal profits!  John Zern | 01/23/04
Revenues do not equal profits  tic swayback | 01/23/04
And we MUST outsource to be competitive.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/23/04
What many ABMers fail to see..  omdguy | 01/23/04
I stand corrected  tic swayback | 01/23/04
stock based compensation expense?? fools will ignore what this is  hipparchus | 01/25/04
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IBM by comparison  hipparchus | 01/23/04
Of course...  BitTwiddler | 01/24/04
stock based compensation expense?? fools will ignore what this is  hipparchus | 01/25/04

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