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Microsoft Reports Record Profits

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. This revenue drove record profits with operating income of $6.59 billion and net income of $4.93 billion. Diluted earnings per share for the quarter grew 72% to $0.50, and included $0.02 in tax benefits and $0.01 in legal charges.

These results reflect $1.67 billion of revenue and operating income, $1.14 billion of net income and $0.12 of diluted earnings per share that were previously deferred primarily related to the technology guarantee programs for Windows Vista™ and the 2007 Microsoft® Office release.

“I am extremely pleased that we delivered a quarter of strong double-digit growth for revenue, operating income and EPS,” said Chris Liddell, chief financial officer at Microsoft. “And I am looking forward to a very good finish to this fiscal year with strength continuing into fiscal 2008.”

Net cash flow from operations was $7.29 billion and Microsoft returned $7.72 billion in cash to shareholders through share buybacks and dividends this quarter.

Impressive!
Now go home trolls.

Couldn't because of people liking Vista. You know 'most' people hate Vista. Least thats what the trolls say. They gotta have facts on their side they seem so smart using Mac, Linux and what not.

Mix Bound saturday. Yay!

Trolls don't like it at all when you talk about travel and events, they fear sunlight, fresh air and human contact.

I went to five Tech conferences last month attended by about twenty thousand people and didn't see one laptop running Linux, not one!

Linux Trollspeak is the way they justify using a cracked copy of Windows.

No schlep left behind, remember.  Thousand points of light.  Cloning. 

Honestly, unless it's to check e-mail or the talk is a real snoozer, I keep my laptop in my bag during conferences. Nothing beats pen and paper for note taking.

And FYI, I used Linux exclusively at the VS2005 (Boston) launch event. I just wanted to make people looking over my shoulder to do a double take.

Of course, I hardly label myself a troll.

Back on-topic: I'll admit, I bought into the FUD spread by the pundits when they were saying Vista was on life support. That, and my own anecdotal experience of seeing only one laptop on the commuter rail running Vista since the release.

But, the little voice in the back of my head always was screaming that this essentially mirrored the XP release and we'll start seeing Vista replace the XP and 2K machines in the office slowly but surely. Looks like he was right again.

eagle wrote:

Trolls don't like it at all when you talk about travel and events, they fear sunlight, fresh air and human contact.

I went to five Tech conferences last month attended by about twenty thousand people and didn't see one laptop running Linux, not one!

Linux Trollspeak is the way they justify using a cracked copy of Windows.

But which conferences did you go to? How many laptops did you actually see open?

I'm always multi-tasking.....

At the first Web 2.0 conference I used my Pocket PC with a Wi-Fi card and even posted on C9 in real-time.

At the second Web 2.0 conference 10/05, I used an early beta of Windows Vista.

I've seen about twenty laptops running Vista in the past few weeks, yesterday on the PATH train I sat next to a guy watching a movie on his watch!

eagle wrote:



I've seen about twenty laptops running Vista in the past few weeks, yesterday on the PATH train I sat next to a guy watching a movie on his watch!

I was on the MBTA commuter rail a few months ago standing over a woman watching "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" on her Nokia phone. It was a very "whoa" momment, as it was something that I'd previously seen done by the more "hard core" technoweenies I know.

But, more power to her!

Me? I just usually fiddle on the Interwebs with my MDA.

Black Ratchet wrote:

Honestly, unless it's to check e-mail or the talk is a real snoozer, I keep my laptop in my bag during conferences. Nothing beats pen and paper for note taking.

You need a TabletPC then

Plus with the free wireless you get at conferences it's cool to chat with the wife on and off, then you don't have to phone

Cornelius Ellsonpeter wrote:



 

But which conferences did you go to? How many laptops did you actually see open?

SXSW, BAR Camp Austin, GDC, SD West, VON, SES, PodcampNYC and I saw thousands of laptops.

I need a Tablet PC for recording videos. 

Does anyone know anything about this watch? 

I couldn't ask the guy as he had headphones on and was watching a movie....

emet wrote:

Microsoft also has the highest GMP of any Fortune 25 company.

Note that does not means their products are any good. Walmart is also a quite sucessful company.

Dumba$$
Post of the Day Award

Harlequin wrote:




Plus with the free wireless you get at conferences it's cool to chat with the wife on and off, then you don't have to phone

The Boston Convention Center doesn't have free wireless

I'm hesitant to get a tablet PC for myself because I'm afraid the novelty will wear off and I'll have paid extra for a feature I never use. Plus, pen and paper just have a certain "feel" to them. *shrug*

Plus, I have no clue how well Linux supports tablets. (I'm sure there is support, I've just never investigated)

emet wrote:

The maturity level of this board is reaching new lows.

Said the man posting the weekly "My dad is better than your dad" post.

When the Santa Rosa chipset finds it's way into a Tablet PC along with the Core2Duo we will be able to run x64 Windows Vista with 4gigs of RAM.
 
All we need is a new gen mobile GPU....

That was a very insensitive remark, what if emet was conceived in a test tube?

emet wrote:

Can you be a little more specific? Thank you.

Every post you've ever made. Hard to be specific.