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Microsoft Revenue Up, Tries to Hook Third World
rocketjam writes "Microsoft reported record revenue for the last quarter Thursday due to increased sales of personal computers. Analysts were impressed with the company's overall performance, however they expressed concern about the continuing drop in unearned revenue, reflecting Microsoft's difficulty in signing up customers for long-term, sustainable business contracts. The $400 million drop in unearned revenue was less than the drop in the last quarter but still exceeded many analyst's expectations. The company's continuing problem in gaining long-term contracts is generally attributed to growing security concerns among customers and company's unwillingness to go along with Microsoft's 'Software Assurance' upgrade subscription plan." Also in the news: Microsoft is donating a pile of software to the United Nations -- retail value, $1 billion; wholesale value, maybe $1 million or so -- attempting to hook the Third World on Microsoft software.
Well, Microsoft also 'knew' that infanticide was 'big' in China, but they let it happen. Does this mean that Microsoft condoned infanticide in China, or does it mean that they had as much chance of enforcing anti-baby-killing laws as they had anti-software-piracy laws?
Oooooh, now I've gotten them started. The slashbots will quote me out of context: "Microsoft is nothing but a bunch of baybee killers!!"
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