Microsoft reports record-high earnings

AFP via Mercury ^ | April 26, 2007 | From correspondents in San Francisco

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MICROSOFT Corporation reported overnight that its profits soared to a record high in the first three months of the year due to sales of its new Vista operating system and Office software.

Profit in the quarter ending March 31 was $US4.43 billion ($5.4 billion), or 50 cents per share, as compared to 29 cents per share, or $US2.98 billion, in the same period in 2006.

The Redmond, Washington-based software colossus credited the success of its globally-promoted new Vista operating system and related software for what it declared a record-breaking quarter.

Revenues at the world's largest software company tallied $US14.4 billion in the quarter as compared to 10.9 billion during the same three months last year.

US sales of computers carrying Microsoft's new operating system Vista leapt 67 per cent in the week after it was launched on January 30, defying the expectations of analysts who gave Vista lackluster reviews.

[ken21]

wha’ for?

for making a pos

that they market extremely well?

[SMM48]

Bad news for Microsoft. They made too much money. President Thighs will be taking those profits "for the common good"

[jdm]

LOL

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"...What do you base your claim on?"

Win2K occasionally had an error which MS never fixed - you had to reformat your HD and install new. The error would occur when you right click the mouse. Instead of a menu, you'd get the Dr Watson message that there was an error in EXPLORER.EXE. The system would then restart.

Once you got this error message, the only fix was a clean install. MS never fixed this problem. They went on to WinXP. And charged you for it.

I'm a PC guy for local gov't. Almost every Win2K system we deployed came down with this problem. We moved to XP ASAP.

[raybbr]

Win2K occasionally had an error which MS never fixed - you had to reformat your HD and install new. The error would occur when you right click the mouse. Instead of a menu, you'd get the Dr Watson message that there was an error in EXPLORER.EXE. The system would then restart.

Sure that wasn't a virus? I have never heard of that one. Did MS issue any info on it?

[BlackbirdSST]

Does this mean uncBill can now pay for his mom’s prescriptions? Blackbird.

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"Sure that wasn't a virus?"

Nope, not a virus. Yes, MS TechNet has documents on it. And no fixes that work.