Microsoft Earnings: Analysis

they got killed

it was short on estimates but I stil find fascinating that a company can generate so much revenue from software and keep growing organically in this halfway recession... and its not even 10 X earnings...

Steeler5...what are you talking about? Profits dropped 6% and made $3 billion. This is quite impressive.

For me Microsoft is dead, they have nothing to offer anymore: An operating system on a decline (Vista what Vista ?) and last not least pointless software like Exel or Word - where better and free open source software doing the same is available. In 15 years there won't be any MS anymore and that's rather good news after all ..

For me Microsoft is dead, they have nothing to offer anymore: An operating system on a decline (Vista what Vista ?) and last not least pointless software like Exel or Word - where better and free open source software doing the same is available. In 15 years there won't be any MS anymore and that's rather good news after all ..

" In 15 years there won't be any MS anymore and that's rather good news after all .." oh ermano - you're dreaming....

hey ermano_1 why is it so easy to trash the great and not so great things that a company like MSFT has done, or you are going to tell me that you dont use windows at all? plus look at the after hours ticker, some buyers dont think it was that bad, say that MSFT didn't exist, we could be in some other terrible company's software dominating the world, it could be worst. Ofcourse it has its flaws but its still impressive. now with all that money they have, they should really acquire yahoo and fast...

Please, lostinvancouver - try to convince me ....

overall not too bad given the economy and how it has impacted the broader market (and tech specifically). ermano you are crazy - first of all if you think ms's portfolio consists of windows vista and excel/word you are missing the boat of where the innovation and future revenue sources will be coming from - cloud SaaS model for email/collaboration, collaboration tools and of course don't forget the .Net developers out there... restructuring and eliminating workforce to focus wouldn't be a bad plan but to thing Microsoft as a company will be gone in 15 years is pure ignorance.

save Americas businesses and you safe your self

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i'll meet you back on tech-ticker in 15 years and we'll see if they're still around...

Well, let's wait and see, but saying they have produced a lot of cash is looking out of the back window. The question is what they will have to offer in the future: Under the pressure of China (they don't want to pay for Windows anymore) Intel has decided to stop building their processors around the Windows structure. For me this is a clear sign on a wall. Obviously they will still produce some money by changing their OS from time to time but sooner or later even the last fool will not be willing to spend money on a new OS whithout any real improvements anymore Cloud computing may work, but may is may and they are not alone. No surprise that they are really desparate for shopping but buying another looser like Yahoo is unlikely to work either

Steven Anthony Ballmer needs to go visit his grand parents in Belarus. He's running this company into the ground. How anyone could do any worse seems almost impossible. Google is kicking MS' butt in internet search and advertising. Firefox is taking more browser share everyday. And he let an almost dead company in Apple kick MS rear end in developing a modern OS that MS can only copy the look of. Why is it that Apple with less than a tenth of the programmers can develop a OS search that really works. Hmm seems that was to be one of the great features of Longhorn aka Vista was to have along with a real advancement in file system how many years ago. Oh I guess that was to much to ask. Vista is so bad that their having to call a service pack Windows 7 so people won't think that it is just Vista with some fixes to the first release not real innovation like real OS wide search that works or that file system that's been promised for so long. All the resources in the world and no innovation. Hell he can't even recognize innovation he laughed at the iPhone. How's that going for you Steve. Heck he can't even get a decent revision of Window Mobile out the door. Maybe he should have stayed in Stanford and finished that MBA so he would know something about how to manage a company instead of making the employees' lives a living hell and dance his monkey dance on the stage at developer conferences.

Microsoft just dinged my employer for licensing that cost us over a million. Everybody here's super stoked about microsoft now. We all got word to install OpenOffice.org ASAP and we're going Open Source as fast as our little feet can take us. It's so sad that American companies like MS can't do great things any more. It's just an operating system, it's not like flying to Mars for crying out loud. And MS has burned so many bridges and their whole marketing mindset is so preditory. Apple is the real exception and there lies my hope for our hosed country. We can, and must do better- our future depends on it.

MSFT should not just keep on blaming the poor results to the economy. The poor results occurred due to MSFT's complacency just like IBM about 30 years ago. MSFT's complacency might be worse than that of IBM because of its world-astounding rise to the top in such a short period of time. If MSFT does not strive itselft to break out from this complacency, IBM will continue to excel MSFT, and MSFT's destiny will be that of Xerox in 10 - 20 years.

I think ermano_1 is saying Microsoft as a company may cease to exist within the next 15 years. Windows, Office will still be around, but maybe Microsoft becomes so stagnant that some other company buys them. Look at all the software giants of 10 years ago, Novell, Computer Associates, Baan, PeopleSoft, etc, they're gone. And soon, Yahoo may join that list. I don't know if it will happen in 15 years, but I certainly think it is possible in the next 30 years that Microsoft shareholders will jump on a merger offer. Very few companies last 100 years.

I think ermano_1 is saying Microsoft as a company may cease to exist within the next 15 years. Windows, Office will still be around, but maybe Microsoft becomes so stagnant that some other company buys them. Look at all the software giants of 10 years ago, Novell, Computer Associates, Baan, PeopleSoft, etc, they're gone. And soon, Yahoo may join that list. I don't know if it will happen in 15 years, but I certainly think it is possible in the next 30 years that Microsoft shareholders will jump on a merger offer. Very few companies last 100 years.

I agree that Microsoft is like the US - on the decline. Microsoft is not, and never has been since its very early years, a company of innovation. Even in the early years, it was a marketing machine - the same that it is today. They produce mostly (not all) crap: from IE to SharePoint. What horrendous products! Because of their size and monopolistic position, there was no incentive to do anything but get bigger and produce more crappola. Now they are so big, no one with any independent and creative bones in their body wants to work for them. It is just one big inefficient, ineffective, heirarchical bureaucracy. Thank goodness for change: The future will look a lot different, and Microsoft doesn't have the intelligence to stay ahead in the game.

Me thinks MSFT will be around 15 years from now. In fact, I'll guarantee it. Why? Government involvement via 'Too Big To Fail' ;^ }