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Microsoft as the concept of an all powerful dominating IT company is dead, and nothing has or will replace it. The company itself is still doing fine- they sti
by mehwoot 13y ago
Microsoft as the concept of an all powerful dominating IT company is dead, and nothing has or will replace it. The company itself is still doing fine- they still make roughly twice the profit google did last financial year.
- yzzxy 13y agoIs that just net profit, or does it account for growth? Net profit is not always a good metric for a large company's performance, as there are a lot of incentives to keep that number down and invest money back into the business (such as taxes). Amazon, for example, almost always operates near or at a loss from a quarterly or yearly perspective, but makes huge growth as business.
- mehwoot 13y agoTrue, I haven't looked deeply into the financials so I don't know what they are doing with their money. Microsoft's profit margin looks a lot better than google's so maybe google is reinvesting a lot.
- codeulike 13y agoThis Ballmer slide from a few months ago compares Microsoft financials to some of the other big players. https://twitter.com/janettu/status/380824535714377728 https://twitter.com/janettu/status/380824535714377728 Pretty interesting: they are still big, and they are arguably much more diversified than any other the other big players.
- teh_klev 13y ago"and they are arguably much more diversified than any other the other big players" "Diversified"...that's the keyword here and I guess the key to their continued success at putting money in the bank.