Correct. MSFT p/e was below ten not long ago and has plenty of scope to get there again. Next on the radar is absolute revenue shrinkage never mind income.
Apple: Likes to take risks - "We can grow into new markets and augment our OS strategy." Microsoft: We live in fear - "We can't grow into new markets because that will cannibalize our existing Windows+Office sales!"
Sounds catchy, but is wrong. For example it was exactly Apple's fear of cannibalizing ipad 4 sales that motivated weak kneed Tim Cook to dump an obsolete ipad mini onto the market thus leaving the gates gaping wide open for Nexus 7.
Billg won't do it because he knows in his heart that Microsoft will just keep on tanking, then the history books will have no choice but to turn to the Bill Gates page, erase "boy genius", and write in: "bog standard lucky one hit wonder asshole who was standing at the right place at the right time".
I think Ballmer will be out by the end of Q1 next year...
That is the same as hoping that Bill Gates will suddenly start giving a shit about Microsoft shareholders, currently just another class of Microsoft victim.
After being mortally wounded by Microsoft, Be drove the last nail into their own coffin themselves: they failed to open source the code base, thus guaranteeing that whatever is/was good about it is now permanently relegated to some deep sedimentary layer of the internet instead of being vibrant and influential as some claim it should be.
Since the whole point of GPU programming is efficiency, don't even think about VBing it. Or Pythoning it. Or whatever layer of a shiny crap might seem superficially appealing to you.
Nobody wants Microsoft to be a product visionary because they have way too much experience already with Microsoft visions. Or hallucinations, more like it.
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We won't see Microsoft die any time soon, but they will eject the monkey in control if this gets any worse.
It's already worse. Monkey is staying, thank goodness.
Correct. MSFT p/e was below ten not long ago and has plenty of scope to get there again. Next on the radar is absolute revenue shrinkage never mind income.
Runner up is Aquantive
Xbox still hold$ the record for cummulative M$ lo$$e$.
You refer to Microsoft as M-DollarSign, so that indicates you're an anti-Microsoft zealot...
More of u$ agree that M$ blows chunk$ every day a$ can be $een in M$ being flat on it$ back $tock price wi$e for 13 bloody year$.
The zune sold more than a million units in its first year...
As Ballmer's unholy mixture of "brown" and "squirt", Zune was doomed from day one in spite of Microsoft's best channel stuffing efforts.
Apple: Likes to take risks - "We can grow into new markets and augment our OS strategy."
Microsoft: We live in fear - "We can't grow into new markets because that will cannibalize our existing Windows+Office sales!"
Sounds catchy, but is wrong. For example it was exactly Apple's fear of cannibalizing ipad 4 sales that motivated weak kneed Tim Cook to dump an obsolete ipad mini onto the market thus leaving the gates gaping wide open for Nexus 7.
"you do it, or we will" is the message and it had some impact
That was when Microsoft actually mattered. Now Google matters instead.
Whoa! I'm not sure I should thank you guys for that. So eye gougeout bad I had to play it twice.
When it comes to having software made available for multiple architectures, the open source community is way ahead of everybody else.
Because we aren't trying to pull shit against the interest of the users. We are the users.
Billg won't do it because he knows in his heart that Microsoft will just keep on tanking, then the history books will have no choice but to turn to the Bill Gates page, erase "boy genius", and write in: "bog standard lucky one hit wonder asshole who was standing at the right place at the right time".
I think Ballmer will be out by the end of Q1 next year...
That is the same as hoping that Bill Gates will suddenly start giving a shit about Microsoft shareholders, currently just another class of Microsoft victim.
Most confusing attempt at trolling ever, Linux User 95.
Brilliant I say. You need to recognize a brilliant troll when you see it, a perfect one doesn't even look like a troll.
Microsoft's last big consumer-facing moneymaker is Office.
Almost correct. Microsoft also makes major money with "Server and Tools", primarily by employing nominally illegal means of technological tying.
Bill Gates is a particularly cynical recidivist scofflaw and Microsoft's DNA has that embedded in it.
After being mortally wounded by Microsoft, Be drove the last nail into their own coffin themselves: they failed to open source the code base, thus guaranteeing that whatever is/was good about it is now permanently relegated to some deep sedimentary layer of the internet instead of being vibrant and influential as some claim it should be.
Microsoft isn't run by Bill Gates anymore.
You don't know that.
They should be happy about 20%+ pass rate, after all the cost of providing the teaching vehicle asymptotically approaches zero.
Since the whole point of GPU programming is efficiency, don't even think about VBing it. Or Pythoning it. Or whatever layer of a shiny crap might seem superficially appealing to you.
Learn OpenCL and do the job properly.
Do the right thing MS.. Move to *nix back end like the other 0.80% that use *nix
Fixed that for you.
Wow MSFT astroturf on the loose. In denial much?
Don't interfere with your enemy while they are busy making a mistake. Got it? Whose side are you on, anyway.
Ballmer can be a good manager, even a good VP
I would feel very sorry for anybody unlucky enough to have Ballmer for a manager, even a Microsoft toady.
Nobody wants Microsoft to be a product visionary because they have way too much experience already with Microsoft visions. Or hallucinations, more like it.
Revisionist. Google copied browser tags from Firefox, not the other way around, just to mention one.