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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:00 pm
by tomh009
Hmmm. If Vista is doing badly, it's not reflecting on Microsoft's financial results:
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/ ... q3_07.mspx
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:17 pm
by pianowizard
article wrote: Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $14.40 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2007, a 32% increase over the same period of the prior year.
Comparison with the same period in 2006 isn't fair because there wasn't a new Windows release at that time.
Also, keep in mind that many people decide they don't like Vista AFTER buying a copy and using it.
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:24 pm
by tomh009
So what time period would you propose to compare with? Microsoft clearly had a strong quarter, and I see no evidence that Vista has been a disaster for them.
As Kyocera said, people complained when Windows XP came out. The complaints are nothing new. And as long as people buy the Vista upgrades, it's all revenue to Microsoft. (And new systems will very soon all ship with Vista, whether they have proper hard disks or small SSDs.)
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:34 pm
by pianowizard
tomh009 wrote:So what time period would you propose to compare with?
The time period when XP was released. It may also be informative to compare those numbers on that web site with what Microsoft had predicted.
tomh009 wrote:Microsoft clearly had a strong quarter, and I see no evidence that Vista has been a disaster for them.
It was a strong quarter, but how much money had Microsoft put into the development of Vista? Whether Vista has been a disaster depends on how these two numbers compare.
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:38 pm
by tomh009
I welcome your plan to dig out these numbers.
As I said, until then, I see no evidence that Vista is a disaster to Microsoft. They continue to be strongly profitable (even while they were paying for Vista development), and the latest quarter, after Vista's launch, shows a strong increase in both revenues and profits.