Microsoft Misses Quarterly Revenue Projection

monsterhead78 wrote to alert us to a BusinessWeek article discussing Microsoft's uncharacteristic miss of its own fiscal projections for the third quarter. From the article: "Three months ago, the software giant said it expected revenue for the period to come in between $9.7 billion and $9.8 billion. But when the company released results Apr. 28, it came up short. Microsoft (MSFT ) rang up just $9.62 billion in sales, a 5% increase from the year-ago quarter."

Comments

Re:Gates and his H-1b habit

[MrAnnoyanceToYou]

Is it not mildly possible that, rather than Red-Blooded, uber-aggressive, and possibly even slightly overconfident Americans are not the source of this phenomena, and rather that this particular problem is a result of the inherently fickle nature of the industry these companies are in and the business world in general?

Not to mention, of course, the fact that 9 billion isn't really a piddly number.....

Re:Ha!

[black mariah]

Their revenue isn't decreasing, fuckwad. It's increasing. If you'd bother to not be a fucking retard for about 30 seconds you'd notice that their profits are up 5% over this time last year. Then again, that doesn't help your stupid bullshit so it gets left out.

By the way, people sell shares of companies all the time. It's how the stock market works. Then again, I'd hope someone that can point to a chart that makes a squiggly line in a downward direction would know something like that.