You seem to have a really tough time admitting you're wrong, which is a serious problem for you, since you're never right.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9665775
Profits climb at Microsoft
Friday, January 27 2006
The software giant reported net income of $3.65 billion, or $0.34 per share, in its fiscal second quarter ended 31 December, compared to $3.46 billion, or $0.32 per share, a year earlier.
The Redmond-based giant reported sales of $11.84 billion, up from sales of $10.82 billion in the year-earlier period.
Your article also states that MS again failed to meet analysts' expectations, and that profits per share were marginally better than these expectations.
I didn't say they were losing money--I said they were hurting. This is true--MS is a monopoly!
They should be having obscene profits at their stage--they have been wiping any other company that makes similar products off the board one by one for the past decade. Clearly they aren't performing as rosy as you dream.
I've taken economics and got excellent marks in it. It doesn't take anyone with an advanced degree to realize that record profits would exceed expectations on all accounts. What your article said is that MS stayed out of the red, as opposed to the rest of the tech sector--which mainly comprises of chip makers, hardware manufacturers, and the software market, which Microsoft has a death-grip on.
That said, your article says absolutely nothing.