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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
Apple was in Palo Alto, back in their early days. Check the Apple-1 manual.
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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
Red Hat disagrees with you.
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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.
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.
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Must be a lot of new ads making the money then.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
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.
Red Hat disagrees with you.
Depends on how you look at it. Red Hat's subscription is to get support with an SLA, 10-year product lifecycles with assistance for migrations to new versions if needed, checkbox-compliance for industries that have compliance requirements, and explicit hardware testing and certification. Sure, Red Hat does this through paywalling their OS and letting Cent and Fedora handle folks who want to roll the dice, but it's not like Red Hat is only providing the functional equivalent of getting a new version of Windows Server as an ISO download every release and that's the end of it, or an OS that requires a metric ton of neutering to prevent inconvenient downtime in order to prevent the addition of otherwise-undesired functionality.
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.
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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.
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