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They made a lot more money in 2013 and 2014. So it might be better for developers, but maybe not the bottom line.
by samfisher83 10y ago
They made a lot more money in 2013 and 2014. So it might be better for developers, but maybe not the bottom line.
- adventured 10y ago$5.2 billion in net income for the quarter. That competes very well with 2014, in which they had $22b in annualized net income. In 2011 for example, they generated $23b in net income, their highest profit. The difference? Profits from the Windows division. It would be a context drop to ignore the change - one which they could do absolutely nothing about - when it comes to how people are buying and using computing today (PCs sales have fallen significantly from the peak). Nothing Microsoft could have done was going to stop PC sales from falling (a less disastrous Windows 8 would have slowed it some). I'd argue they're in better shape today versus 2011, when their profit was slightly higher. Today's Microsft is far less vulnerable to the erosion in the PC market. For Microsoft to not be in the midst of collapsing with the down shift in the PC market, and the loss of importance for the PC as the former center of the computing universe, is a staggering accomplishment that few have managed in tech history.