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MS Sales Growth Limited by Delays in Windows

Posted by timothy on from the perhaps-some-other-reasons-too dept.

Alien54 writes "As reported by Bloomberg, Microsoft Corp.'s sales growth will probably drop below 10 percent next fiscal year for the first time because delays in the next version of Windows have created the longest-ever lag between releases of the software. They go into some detail on how the lack of new products also hurts multiyear subscriptions, because clients that buy the contracts expecting to get product upgrades may not renew if new items won't be available for a while. Didn't someone say once that they have enough reserves to last 5 years without any sales at all?"

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  1. Does anyone else ever get these weird ideas? by phaetonic · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I see Microsoft becoming like the OCP corperation on Robocop.

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