News - Microsoft reports unprecedented fall in revenues

[HEXUS]

The software giant announced its quarterly revenue had declined by six percent compared to a year ago.

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[Singh400]

Nothing really surprising here, was expected tbh. Every company (bar tesco) has reported the same thing.

[TheAnimus]

Given the amount of MS income that is depend on businesses buying Office etc, this is very predictable.

The question is what will they do? To much of the tech press has been harping on about vista (they do love a bandwagon) but in reality most analysits tell you that the Office product is a more important and more valuable one, given that 2007 has been seen by many as skippable (plenty of people are still on Office 2000), will 2010 be any different with its 64bit support?

How will microsoft try and do better in the downturn, or are they going to do a Darling, put their fingers in their ears and say no everything will be alright tommorow.

[dangel]

MS already have their ace - Windows 7. Not only is the product very good, but the marketing of it has been rather masterful too, aping Apple's clever hyping.

[Singh400]

I can't see a massive influx of fresh income because Office 14 will be in x64 flavour too. I do see a massive fresh income for Windows 7, purely because this time the internet community is getting behind it.

[hermano pequeño]

To much of the tech press has been harping on about vista (they do love a bandwagon) but in reality most analysits tell you that the Office product is a more important and more valuable one, given that 2007 has been seen by many as skippable (plenty of people are still on Office 2000), will 2010 be any different with its 64bit support?

Whether or no Vista is a bandwagon, I think we can agree that regarding reliability and consumer trust of the product, Vista has to be seen as one of the most unsuccessful launches of any MS OS, can't we?

What astonishes me most of all is that it has taken a deep global recession, not the afore-mentioned "comparative" failure of Windows Vista, to seriously dent the profit-making juggernaut which is Microsoft.

With financial institutions being considered "too big to allow to fail" I find it ironic that MS appears to make fairly decent profit on their failures without needing "bail outs" or hot "cash injections" from governments or the IMF.

[Jay]

I would think that Vista has a part of this and maybe more mainstream use of Linux