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What decline? Microsoft reported $62.48 billion in revenue and $18.76 billion in net income for their FY 2010.
by aphexairlines 16y ago
What decline? Microsoft reported $62.48 billion in revenue and $18.76 billion in net income for their FY 2010.
- loewenskind 16y agoIf all you ever look at is raw bottom line numbers, life is going to be one surprise after another for you.
- aphexairlines 16y agoThat's an odd way of advocating hype over facts. And it's a bit of a stretch to pronounce Microsoft's decline if they're not #1 in a couple of trendy areas (cloud computing, smartphones).
- loewenskind 16y agoRevenue and popularity are tails of trends. If you're looking at the bottom line you're looking at what was previously (possibly several years ago). People pay a lot less attention to what MS does these days and people are even making new OSes these days. It wasn't so long ago that people were predicting that would never happen again.
- fauigerzigerk 16y agoTheir problem is that cloud computing is the successor of Windows. It's not just some trendy area.
- fauigerzigerk 16y agoTheir share price has gone sideways forever in spite of growing revenues and profits. It's called multiple contraction. The reason is that everyone knows they cannot continue to extract those kinds of margins from people forever for stuff that is basically commoditised. [Edit] The funny thing is that they were the ones who commoditised computing. They were the ones who made computing cheap and ubiquitous. Now they are on the wrong side of the equation. Now they are the ones defending an overpriced unscalable model as IBM once did.
- robryan 16y agoYahoo is "still big in middle America", myspace clung to the fact that they were the biggest social network in America to for a long time. I saw something from Nokia that had some statement about how strong their market share still is. In all cases like this while the current performance is good their is a downward trend. While a company as big as microsoft isn't going under overnight long term if they don't address certain areas they will become increasingly irrelevant and from there it isn't hard to see fast moving companies like Google and Apple eating away at their market share in the core product lines.