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Microsoft spends on growth
In a number of business sections sales were up, sometimes substantially on a percentage basis, but revenues were down. Given that software is only profit once completed, Microsoft must be spending on both marketing and development.
Services and high end computing are only part of the effort.

Good for Microsoft.
I've also appreciated Sun's insistence on spending more on R&D than the market approves. A major difference is, Microsoft is going to sell everything it makes. Sun... isn't.


Also interesting, switching from Yahoo's to the company's own AdCenter reduced revenues. I wonder why how the ads are purchased makes a difference.


And, very irrelevantly, Schubert's C Major String Quintet (D956, extra cello) is great music.
Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 04/27/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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On the other hand...  marksashton | 04/27/06
Which .....  Linux_4u! | 04/27/06
Price caps in a free market, I don't think so...  SouthernPride | 04/27/06
*sigh*  zkiwi | 04/27/06
Re *sigh*  SouthernPride | 04/27/06
Clearly...  zkiwi | 04/27/06
Even they are not forced  Omch'Ar | 04/28/06
And this is a valid comparison how?  zkiwi | 04/27/06
Look at all the rest  SouthernPride | 04/27/06
Well, you are wrong.  zkiwi | 04/27/06
You are not exactly right either  SouthernPride | 04/27/06
Look  zkiwi | 04/27/06
It is very difficult, if not impossible  Ole Man | 04/25/08
This will be a fun one...  John Zern | 04/27/06
You called it  rapson | 04/28/06
yes, and they also said  Monkey_MCSE | 04/28/06
the end is near!  Linux Geek | 04/27/06
Yes, your grounded from Dad's computer!!!  SouthernPride | 04/27/06
read that article again  phburks | 04/27/06
Yeah, right  Fred Fredrickson | 04/28/06
Wow. Small thinkers proliferate these boards  John Zern | 04/28/06
Um well too be fair MOST of us who have or might start  Laff | 04/28/06
Too true  John Zern | 04/28/06
That's the beauty of a monopoly  Ole Man | 04/25/08
WHAT Service and HPC? nonsense  michael_t | 04/27/06
That's not what the article said  rapson | 04/28/06
MBA's?  Cardinal_Bill | 04/27/06
Haven't listened to the conference call yet ...  too_much green_tea | 04/27/06
You obviously didn't read the article  marksashton | 04/27/06
Microsoft spends on growth  Anton Philidor | 04/27/06
Hmmm, first Sony reports more revenue but next Q shortfall... now this...  HypnoToad72 | 04/27/06
Maybe the public is catching-on!  An_Axe_to_Grind | 04/27/06
If by the public  zkiwi | 04/27/06
He speaks in riddles.  HypnoToad72 | 04/28/06
He speaks in riddles.  HypnoToad72 | 04/28/06
Good, this puts them in line with Sun  Boot_Agnostic | 04/28/06
The end is not near  Chad_z | 04/28/06
This isn't a sign of doom  Michael Kelly | 04/28/06
Some people may be waiting...  Anton Philidor | 04/28/06
Maybe not but this is  Chad_z | 04/28/06
Further slippage likely thru 2007...  TCO . | 04/29/06
Or perhaps its just what people want ...  Tok-Sic | 01/25/08
Not at all!  Tok-Sic | 01/25/08

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