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Despite that MS has not had an explosion in sales, the outcome they were hoping for. They probably wouldn't mind a fall in market share so much if their sales h
by justincormack 14y ago
Despite that MS has not had an explosion in sales, the outcome they were hoping for. They probably wouldn't mind a fall in market share so much if their sales had still quadrupled.
- rhplus 14y agoYou're right, their sales haven't quadrupled, but to be fair, across the company they haven't remained stagnant either. The best proxy I could find for sales was annual revenue, and that shows 3.2x growth for the 12 year period: FY 2000: $22.96 billion FY 2012: $73.72 billion Now, I'm sure financial geeks will pick holes in this simple comparison. And of course I realize that company revenue is heavily weighted by Windows and Office, and increasingly servers and tools, and much less so by direct consumer purchases. [2000] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2000/jul00/q00-4erpr.aspx https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2000/jul00/q00-4e... [2012] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2012/jul12/07-19fy12Q4earningsPR.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2012/jul12/07-19fy...