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    Headline :: Microsoft's annual revenue surpasses $50 Billion

    This fiscal year marked the general availability of Microsoft's flagship products, Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Revenue growth was primarily driven by solid customer acceptance of these products, as well as increasing sales of existing products such as SQL Server, Windows Server, Visual Studio, and Xbox 360 consoles.

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    Would have though this was more general news than gaming since Xbox 360 is actually not making money!

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    Quote Originally Posted by GeorgeTuk View Post
    Would have though this was more general news than gaming since Xbox 360 is actually not making money!
    That's why it's on the front page of HEXUS too

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    Quote Originally Posted by GeorgeTuk View Post
    Would have though this was more general news than gaming since Xbox 360 is actually not making money!
    I thought the 360 was making about $50 a console now?

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    The extended warranty cost them about 2 billion or something stupid like that. Because they made the consoles as cheap as possible (crap solder, poor case design, etc.) there's a huge failure rate, so even though they made a profit per sale, they lost a lot more because of repairs.

    But MS don't really care about a tiny loss like 2 billion really

    Still, IMO, they should redesign the console (the actual specs stay the same, but the PCB layout and case and disk drives need to be improved), start selling those, and allow everyone with an old console to trade it in for the new one for free and their nearest retailer.


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    Solid customer acceptance? Hmm...

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07...quarter_vista/

    With the "wow" clearly failing to materialize in fiscal 2007, Microsoft was left to pronounce itself "broadly happy" - not blown away - with Windows Vista sales... Annual growth is broadly in line with the non Windows Vista world of between eight and 14 per cent for the previous three years. Chief financial officer Chris Liddell said Windows Vista revenue recognition came in $20m to $30m lower than expected.
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    MS should've issued spankings to hardware manufacturers for being lazy when making drivers. What killed the sales really is that many people heard the rumours that "Vista is crap don't buy it" because the drivers were crap.


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