Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft Briefly Overtakes Apple as Most Valuable US Company (khaleejtimes.com)
Microsoft briefly overtook Apple as the world's most valuable listed company, fulfilling what it almost did eight years ago and adding a feather on the cap on CEO Satya Nadella. From a report: Redmond, Washington-headquartered Microsoft had a market cap of $753.34 billion, beating out the iPhone maker's $746.82 billion in intra-day trade on Friday at the Nasdaq in New York. Apple, however, regained control at the close. According to the Nasdaq website, Apple's market cap rose back up to $817.58 billion. Right behind it is Microsoft, which also increased to $791.19 billion. Tech companies have undergone some rough times recently. In particular, the so-called FAANG group -- Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (Alphabet) -- had, as at November 20, combined market cap losses of over $1.02 trillion from their recent highs.
I missed it. And life goes on. Next!
Microsoft's stock gains have been slower and much more consistent - and the volatility of the stock is also a lot lower. Of course, MSFT makes most of its revenue from business-based revenue streams which are much less affected by consumer confidence/consumer purchasing, so it should be less volatile. Long-term, MSFT and AMZN will be the most valuable tech companies because of their dominant positions that tend to be more independent of consumer trends.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Why do writers feel the need to vomit the city every company calls home? Readers of this site aren't likely to confuse Microsoft with Apple just because Redmond and Palo Alto aren't mentioned.
See buttcoin isn't the only way to lose money.
Readers of this site aren't likely to confuse Microsoft with Apple just because Redmond and Palo Alto aren't mentioned.
Apple is in Cupertino, not Palo Alto.
This matters least.
Microsoft is legendary for years of steady profits and good behavior. I happen to know people who frame their Microsoft stock certificates and put them on their living room wall, so to the contrary Microsoft is some peoples precious
Apple was in Palo Alto, back in their early days. Check the Apple-1 manual.
Circumcision is child abuse.
I don't actually know anyone who's ever bought anything from Apple
"Not as clumsy/random as a blaster - An elegant weapon 4 a more civilized age" https://it.slashdot.org/commen...
* "For over a 1,000 generations the Jedi Knights were guardians of peace & justice in the old Republic. Before the dark times. Before the EMPIRE"
(NOT "wannabe weapons" of TROLL shitlords on /. - theirs = effete downmods I RUN 'EM DRY OF & lies/deceit/mistrust - it's WHY they LOSE).
APK
P.S.=> Many here DO listen https://linux.slashdot.org/com... & enjoy greater speed/security/reliability & anonymity hosts yield natively speeding you up 2 ways (adblocks & hardcodes that protect vs. DNS security issues in redirect poisoning + request tracking logs & RESOLVE FASTER locally from RAM driven by KERNELMODE speed vs. slow usermode in "solutions" packed w/ security issues (DNS/Antivirus) OR not working fully by default (adblock) in usermode addons easily detected by webmasters & blocked doing less but using more)... apk
Operating systems are NOT a subscription!
Hum...
CUR ALLOC 20195.....5804M
oh really, you think that symbolic crap beats reality?
Microsoft is the default and expected end user business software. they own the desktop.
you don't need lines when everyone is ordering your stuff by default
Apple was in Palo Alto, back in their early days.
Microsoft was in Albuquerque, back in their early days.
History of Microsoft
Currently the FAANG group. Some time in the relatively near future it will be the ?AANG group, as FB goes the way of MySpace and other social networks before it. I would pin my money on companies that produce actual products and services.
Not sure what point you're trying to make.
- Windows has 87% of the desktop/laptop market share; .NET are massively used in the enterprise sector.
- while AWS is still massively in the lead in the cloud infrastructure market, it is losing market share to Azure;
- Office 365 overtook Google Apps in the cloud applications market three years ago;
- and C# and ASP
Microsoft is a pretty solid business.
imaginary money
the part of the cake that is our own wealth/income, gets smaller and smaller.
Choose one and make up your mind. You can't have it both ways.
I don't actually know anyone who's ever bought anything from Apple
Try leaving your basement.
of shame.
I guess this is a result of almost being broken up. The gray man theory of business?
Dumbass faggot idiots line up for Crapple shit. That's not something to be proud of.
I think a strong case could be made that the massive rise in personal computing and the Internet came about precisely because of Windows. A pretty-much ubiquitous OS that was easy enough for most people to use allowed developers - hardware and software alike - to target a single platform, and that allowed rapid deployment and expansion of technology into the consumer and business worlds. This isn't about "Windows it the best/worst", this is about a pretty-much standardized platform emerging and allowing most technical advancements to target a single platform.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
I bought a 3rd generation iPod Touch. It was good for awhile, but in hindsight wasn't really a smart purchsse.
gweihir KNOWS u IMPERSONATE me https://it.slashdot.org/commen... c6gunner proves it https://linux.slashdot.org/com... he forgot to SUBMIT as AC & using his registered 'lusrname' instead (because he tried to mock me both BEFORE & after I FAIRLY challenged him to show he's done better work - he had ZERO).
& NO WAY I'd "cry" like you "playing victim ne'er-do-wells" on /. (TROLL /.ers, not all) OR post on hosts offtopic.
YOU HELPED ME https://science.slashdot.org/c... (& you quit trying to make me look bad trying to "tell lies" on hosts as "ME" IN YOUR IMPERSONATIONS of me e.g. https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... as regards Intel speculative execution attack? Hosts PREVENT 'EM)
APK
P.S.=> I KNOW the 2nd to last link above's KILLING YOU - YOU ACTUALLY HELPED ME getting me to see if hosts stop more than portsmash (& Meltdown + Spectre too) & "lo & behold" - hosts WORK on 'em - U LOSE... apk
You don't understand: The purpose of market valuation is entirely unrelated to actual worth. This was actually the basis for some research that two guys got the Nobel prize for.
Valuation is not something that is actually measured.
It's literally just what some guy(s) state[s]!
And surprise, surprise: It's based on if he's bound to make money with it going up or with it going down.
That's it.
They're not stupid. They just know that they can hide behind looking stupid.
Apple was in Palo Alto, back in their early days.
Microsoft was in Albuquerque, back in their early days.
Obligatory, "I was in your Mom last night."
Must be a lot of new ads making the money then.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
They'd probably have double the cap.
But, sadly, they don't. All they make nowadays is weak dumbed down slim snowflake computers. Their computers are like a mechanical version of a millenial.
Microsoft makes a crap ton of money with businesses in the cloud. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-shines-in-q3-as-cloud-office-365-posts-strong-sales-gains/
oh an people used to love windows. https://www.businessinsider.com/windows-95-launch-20-years-ago-2015-8
They are considered quite harmful to humanity though. Given that they are intentionally trying to forever grow exponentially, consuming everything in their path, and make themselves more and more valuable, ... which means the part of the cake that is our own wealth/income, gets smaller and smaller.
And that's why you are a fucking moron. Wealth isn't a finite pie/cake asshole. New wealth is constantly created.. Want simple proof? Go dig up some gold.. Boom, you've just added wealth to the system. Take a chunk of wood and carve it into something beautiful.. Sell it to the guy who just dug up gold.. Increase in GDP.
I seriously wonder how you mouth breathing assholes can figure out how to use a computer but don't understand simple fucking economics.. New wealth is constantly being created.. Someone can get rich without ANYONE getting poor.
Oh, so the personal computer explosion of the 90's wasn't related to windows at all? Are you an idiot? Windows (an OS I hate) absolutely gets at least some credit.. Nobody is saying it's an awesome OS or that they invented anything.. But they wrapped it all together, sold it pre-loaded on PCs, and the rest is history.
Times have changed.
Steve Jobs love him or hate made excellent products well ahead of their time. He has been gone for awhile now and there is no reason to pay a premium for his products. Android and Windows have caught up while IOS and MacOSX have regressed in quality and uniqueness.
When MacOSX came out and when the first iPhone came out there was nothing like it! Gorgeous. WindowsXP was kind of close but was butt ugly and behind in terms of unix features and looks with hardware accelerated graphics. Before the IPhone1 we had crappy flip phones with $2.99 .mid ring tone music generated that sounded like an Atari locked down with your carrier. The iPhone had GPS! The iPhone had sensors! The iPhone had amazing apps! The iPhone had maps! I could go on and on.
Regardless people also expect free apps and stream music for free and put up with ads now. So no revenue stream in the AppStore which is how Apple grew monumentous during it's brief height. Steve Jobs is gone and Apple doesn't have a revenue plan or way to win.
If I were Apple I would have bought Pandora and Spotify with exclusive deals and music only available on the Apple ecosystem or something.
Microsoft we love to hate them here but are making $$$$ off of Linux with Azure and also Visual Studio and Office 365 subscriptions. MS has improved their C++ and now even includes Python, R, clang and even Android SDK with an emulator (no you did not misread that!) and made Visual Studio Code available to Linux and made VS for the Mac. They are growing and improving their once laughable product stack. Apple? Not so much.
http://saveie6.com/
I think a strong case could be made that the massive rise in personal computing and the Internet came about precisely because of Windows.
You could, but you couldn't reasonably make the argument that it wouldn't have come about without Windows, either. And since Microsoft arguably set back computing by a decade subsequently, it's a massive net loss.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
When money is "created" ... (imaginary one, that is, but still) ... There is more total money in the world.
But still the same amount of work force. Getting the same total amount of money.
But the "wealthy", whose income does not come from work, will have a bigger purchase power, buying more.
This drives the prices up. which means the purchase power of the work force's money goes down. They effectively get less wealth for their work. Which means, they, relatively, are poorer, and absolutely, get poorer too, due to the inability to keep their standard of living.
Obviously you will completely ignore what I just said, just like the last time... not get it anyway, and even if you read it, *and* get it, you will mentally reject it and snap, as your own ego / self-confidence is clearly too unstable to handle you ever being wrong. And you gobble even more of that psychopath capitalism Kool-Aid, to cling to the beliefs that your self hangs on.
But congrats on you calling others "fucking morons"! At least in that area, you know what you're talking about.
Windows is confusing as heck, and was always difficult to maintain with viruses going seemingly unchecked. I'd think if Gary Kildall won the war for IBM we'd have been much farther ahead, with virus scans before installation, and tabs in the file manager.
Yep, scumbag tactics and user-hate policies will get you higher on the ladder.
Keep telling us, "Microsoft is dead! They are dead I tells ya! They just don't 'get' Open Source and they are a Source Of Evil!"
OK, whatever. To me, Microsoft is a useful commercial entity. I made my peace with Microsoft a long time ago.