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Microsoft Is a Dying Consumer Brand
Taxman415a noted a CNN story on the dying Microsoft brand where they talk about "The less than stellar performance of, and problems in, nearly every consumer division. It cites StatCounter's data showing IE's market share falling below 50%, and is even smart enough to note that's just one statistic with various problems, though the trend is clear. It also seems that MS doesn't want to compete with Android, so it plans to charge royalty fees to handset makers to discourage them from using it in their products. The conclusion is that MS will just be a commercial, not consumer company."
"but the potential for Windows Phone 7 is enormous"
What is this meme and where did it come from, or are you a paid shill?
MS has been an also ran in the mobile OS market for as long as it's been in it, and one more release makes little to no difference to that.
Microsoft does very well in the server market. I haven't read any recent figures, but the vast majority of company internal servers are Windows based. Internet facing servers is a slightly different story, but don't confuse surveys like Netcraft's hostname survey as a survey of market share. Netcraft shows Apache dominance in hostnames, but that does not translate to number of servers.
Netcraft did a physical server survey a number of years ago that showed Windows had about 50% of the physical web servers, despite only having 2x% of the hostname survey.
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I guess in the world of marketiod-speak, either you're growing or you're dying.
And, even if you're growing, and you lose the "buzz"..you're dying.
Or...maybe the author is just shorting MS stock.
And the quarter before that? I didn't see people queuing up for hours to buy the 3GS in the months before the release of the iPhone4. Come to think of it, they only do that immediately after the release of a new product.
The point you made is that Apple's profit fluctuates more than Microsoft's.