Yes you are. Never go by the press release of earnings reports. Instead, look at the numbers themselves and the news accounts. While this quarter beat the same quarter from a year ago, it is lower than last quarter which is lower than the quarter before and guidance from Microsoft has stated it will be lower next quarter. Then you have to add in that Microsoft will abandon Vista which already has sales in the single percentage digit range. And Windows7 won't be out for another year. So where will sales come from? The OS is their flagship. France, Germany, Spain, IBM, don't remember them all. Just from the ongoing tech news articles I read every day.[/quote] Microsofts method of marketing is to stir up fear, uncertainty and doubt by announcing products, and interest in products, to keep you from buying from other sources because MS will have the same thing "any day now". That 'any day' may be years in the making if at all. Microsoft has comparatively little experience in the web business compared to IBM, Google, Yahoo, etc. Compare the charts from 04 to now and you'll see a huge difference. People have been buying up and holding Google at $300 to $500 a share and more as it climbed while MS shares swing between $20 and $30 for almost 8 years.
Just wait until Windows 7 combines Windows Surface technology. Microsoft isn't going anywhere. 80% of the people that view our website is using Windows. I don't know about you but 80% is dominating http://dreamlinestudio.com/blog/im-a-pc-ad-defeats-apple/79/
HAHAHAHAHA are you the dumbest guy in the world? what happened there? They are even soon going to release (but not very soon) windows 7, MUCH better than vista, it's Vista fixed times a billion and everything changed and made cooler. It's a lot different from Vista but they fixed vista in windows 7.
Microsoft is still going strong as ever. Windows 7 looks promising from the latest previews. There Instant messaging service is still second to none. Xbox is doing pretty well and over 90% of the computers in the world still run windows.
You think?the entertainment segment, which includes the Xbox 360 game console, reported a drop in sales from a year ago. And declining as I noted earlier. A couple days ago there was this: Germany will migrate 11,000 desktops to Linux
Well, to tell you Microsoft is the widely-used OS but then it is also the most prone to viruses, worms, and trojans
Nah. Not yet... Demand is still too high. It would take a major screw up on their part for that to happen.
Again, you last 3 posters did not read anything. Microsoft sales are declining and Microsoft has said they will continue to decline.
First of all Microsoft can't live on XP any more which is what everybody is using. NOT Vista but XP. Microsoft needs to sell Vista or they can't say there making a profit.
Windows live search is seems to be at an end ...For each term search , i am getting crap results ...But in OS market ,though linux is setting its foot print , Microsoft will continue their reign at least for 10 years.
Why is it that every time somebody criticizes Microsoft people take it so seriously. It is a company like any other. If you own stock, work for Microsoft state it in your post so we know why you take it so seriously.
Even if some people move to others OS, Microsoft will keep on selling theirs alright. They might not see as many sales as in the past thanks to Linux dist, etc, but Microsoft will always find ways around, they are already well diversified (games, mobile OS, servers, emails, search engines, firewalls, etc) what they might do to avoid being hit by new OS's is simply diversified more. They have something on their favor, name and money, so going in different paths should not be hard.