MS made $5.2bn profit in the last quarter. Even with the apparent long term decline in PC purchases, they will be able to milk the cash cows of Office and Windows Server etc for a good while yet.
Heck, even Windows phones are starting to become popular - apparently almost 10% of all smartphone sales in Europe at the moment!
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostAttacking your competition sounds like your company is in financial trouble.
They ain't going to be in any financial problems.
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostI don't think they are desperate, profits are up and they are heading into 2014 very, very strongly.
Probably works different with Americans but they need to realise that not everyone in the world who speaks English as a first language or even very good other language has the same psyche as an American.
Originally posted by minestrone View PostI think it is a valid point and one they have every right putting across as I am sure most people using gmail don't have a clue this is going on.
Originally posted by minestrone View PostOf course they have failed to tie up the term with the pig latin adverts on TV which is a fail.
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I don't think they are desperate, profits are up and they are heading into 2014 very, very strongly.
I think it is a valid point and one they have every right putting across as I am sure most people using gmail don't have a clue this is going on.
Of course they have failed to tie up the term with the pig latin adverts on TV which is a fail.
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Originally posted by russell View Post
Scroogled - Microsoft Store U.S.
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Originally posted by CheeseSlice View PostPay for software? that is an outrage!
What's not fine is when there is a microblade server hardware that costs $500, but server OS for it is at least $800 (MSFT Server Standard). There isn't even a question whether to use Microsoft software on those and for large boxes they are now switching to per core pricing (SQL Server, Exchange etc).
All that is pushing their long time customers (used Microsoft since MS DOS 3.0 days) to Linux/Java.
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Originally posted by AtW View PostOk, being scroggled is not nice.
But have they considered how people feel when having to pay them for CALs and crazy per-core licenses?
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Ok, being scroggled is not nice.
But have they considered how people feel when having to pay them for CALs and crazy per-core licenses?
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It's a bit much when they try and tie your windows 8 login to a M$ account at every opportunity.
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