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To: ShadowAce
WOW. Times have changed. Mickeysoft figured out it actually has to support Linux to compete...


6 posted on 07/20/2009 10:34:49 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: bamahead; ShadowAce; dayglored; Terpfen
Their Financial Report after the Bell tonight was a disaster...the CNBC reporters were trying to figure how they came in under estimate by 1.2 Billion...

I think that is a /Revenue miss of some size....even for Microsoft.

From Marketwatch:

Microsoft Corporation

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After Hours

MSFT
/quotes/comstock/15*!msft/quotes/nls/msft

$

23.80

Change

-1.76 -6.89%

Volume

Volume 106.06m

Jul 23, 2009 7:59 p.m.

AND:

Microsoft, Amazon shares slide after quarterly results

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Revenue fell 17% to $13.1 billion, reflecting a sharp slowdown in software sales as demand for new personal computers software amid the economic downturn. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had pegged earnings at 36 cents a share on $14.37 billion in revenue.


7 posted on 07/23/2009 6:38:43 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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