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Computer Demand Boosts MS Profits

Posted by Zonk on from the going-up dept.

elzurawka wrote to mention a BBC article discussing Microsoft's boost in profits as a result of an upswing in PC demand. From the article: "The company announced record revenue of $39.79bn for the fiscal year ending on 30 June, an 8% increase over the $36.84 billion reported last year. The main drivers of sales for Microsoft's Windows, Office and Server software products - PC makers and Asian component manufacturers - have reported healthy demand for PCs."

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  1. From the desk of captain obvious ... by nospmiS+remoH · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, the oil industry attributed increases in gas sales to an increase in automobile sales.

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  2. MS Business Plan by Innova · · Score: 5, Funny
    1. Design operating system with poor security.
    2. People throw away old computers with malware.
    3. Sell more licenses to operating system.
    4. Profit!!!
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  3. This just in... by blakespot · · Score: 5, Funny
    A team of famed mathematicians have make the breakthrough discovery that the integer 2, when added to another integer of the same value (2), results in a sum total of the integer 4. Early speculation that the resultant integer would be 5 or 3 has been shattered. Stay tuned for further details on this revelation.


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  4. Re:Percentage Shhmercentage by Kiryat+Malachi · · Score: 5, Informative

    An 8% increase yielding 39.79 billion implies that the revenue was 36.84 billion, meaning that 8% is 2.94 billion, meaning that the 8% increase is *not*, in fact, greater than Apple's total revenue of 3.52 billion.

    Brought to you by the Association For Numerical Fact Checks, a division of Mathematical Bitch Slaps Inc.

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