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Microsoft Breaks the $50 Billion Mark
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| July 19, 2007
| By Stuart J. Johnston
Posted on 07/19/2007 5:57:02 PM PDT by jdm
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posted on
07/20/2007 5:43:01 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: DesScorp
Don’t forget the XBox. They’ve taken billions of dollars of loss over the years to get themselves in the console market. Now the 360 is doing well, although the hardware is apparently crap (strange, because MS’s hardware has always been pretty solid).
To: DesScorp
"Windows Media is now the dominant delivery codec for streaming audio and video on the web (except for movie trailers, where Quicktime still dominates)."
You sound like a MS marketing guy/gal to me. The dominant delivery codec for streaming audio and video is not either Windows media or Quicktime, it is Adobe's Flash player.
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posted on
07/20/2007 6:03:55 AM PDT
by
SwordofTruth
(God is good all the time.)
To: TopQuark
Microsoft makes $50B - and not a word! Ah, but remember when Janet Reno and her ilk tried to take down Microsoft? Simply because Microsoft didn't want to play their game.
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posted on
07/20/2007 6:09:09 AM PDT
by
unixfox
(The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
To: SwordofTruth
“You sound like a MS marketing guy/gal to me.”
Sorry to disappoint you, but no. And go to your local news websites. What are they streaming in? Go to radio websites. What are they streaming in? Outside of Itunes, what is the dominant format for song purchases?
Flash is great for animation and quick videos on youtube, but try finding a place that offers song downloads in flash.
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posted on
07/20/2007 10:07:27 AM PDT
by
DesScorp
To: rlmorel
I’m through with upgrading ... still trying to run Outlook without it freezing up ... MS says I have to upgrade to Office2007 ... can’t afford it - I have Office2000 and they want $125 for the upgrade key .....
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posted on
07/20/2007 11:00:45 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("Sweet Blessed Mother of Acceleration, Don't Fail Me Now!")
To: unixfox
"...Ah, but remember when Janet Reno and her ilk tried to take down Microsoft? Simply because Microsoft didn't want to play their game.
LOL...they just fixed it so anytime someone at the Justice Department logged onto their PC, it would tell them they had to authorize their original copy of Windows XP before they could continue...:)
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posted on
07/20/2007 11:11:00 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
To: microgood
And how does that change the point being made?
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posted on
07/23/2007 9:55:45 AM PDT
by
TopQuark
To: TyroneSlothrop
I do know the difference, thank you. Please reread the post -— you must’ve missed the point it makes.
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posted on
07/23/2007 9:57:07 AM PDT
by
TopQuark
To: TopQuark
And how does that change the point being made?
Your post made it sound like Microsoft was making more profit than Exxon, but was not being targeted as opposed to making less than half the profit of Exxon and not being targeted.
To: microgood
It is incorrect to say that MSFT made less than half the profit of XOM. One does not compare absolute numbers in finance: think of the profits of your local mom-and-pop grocery store vs. profits of IBM, say.
XOM's profit is about 19.5% of assets, MSFT's is 18.7% of assets. The two companies have the same profits (when adjusted for size).
Our elected, anti-capitalist and anti-American leaders are fascinated by large numbers. They hoped that people will use your logic and get upset about the many billions in profit of XOM. They know that most people do not know how to count money and, given the prevalent anti-capitalist sentiment in the country, will support their attempted persecution of xOM shareholders --- retirees, widows and orphans for the most part.
You should be more watchful in these matters. The point was
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posted on
07/24/2007 11:24:07 AM PDT
by
TopQuark
To: TopQuark
Our elected, anti-capitalist and anti-American leaders are fascinated by large numbers. They hoped that people will use your logic and get upset about the many billions in profit of XOM.
What logic? I am not saying I agree with any of this, I was just pointing out the difference between the Exxon/Microsoft numbers. I do not even believe in corporate taxes at all since it is just an tax on the consumers anyway.
The only time I think it makes any sense at all to tax corporations are for sales overseas where they cannot tax them except at the source.
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