Microsoft Posts Record Q1 Revenue of $16.20 Bn.

[mykem]

You forget that windows is only $120, or $100 on sale. Students can pick it up for $30, sometimes less. Even if it were overpriced, it isn't a massive chunk of your money. Buying a Mac for $1200 when the same hardware with Windows installed is $700 for a PC means you're paying $500 for the OS. Backlit keyboards don't make up for that. Unibody frames are a bad idea imo and I don't know why anyone buys them.

So the point is, even if MS were making 50% markup, it amounts to 50 bucks and the Apple tax is at least 3-5x that.
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Right on... let's see Apple open OS X up to common hardware... then see how much they charge to make up for the $500 loss.

 

[RobinPanties]

[citation][nom]jfby[/nom]I think this answers the question 'is Microsoft a dead question' for the short term. I'm looking forward to the next five years to see how Microsoft navigates the near term consumer tech market.[/citation]
What you say makes great sense, except Intel is very smart in business decision making (fiscally) and seems like they're waiting for nVidia to get into a bind first. Certainly, nVidia has been facing tough competition in AMD{read:ATI} and although nVidia continues to hang in the race with powerful offerings, their transistor counts continue to grow with high power consumption, generally speaking. Perhaps Intel believes nVidia will face tougher times in continue to increase performance and will see a bigger decline, then Intel will swoop in and get them at a lower price per share... certainly, AMD isn't removing pressure from the GPU market and nVidia has their work cut out for them. I think part of their problem is they've spread their resources to other projects like integrated chipset making and mobile chips like Tegra. Their GPU lines seem to focus on the high end performance crown and the lower end to mid range offerings feel like afterthoughts often to me...

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]TEAMSWITCHER[/nom]Unfortunately, Apple posted higher revenue numbers this quarter, and Apple has more headroom for growth. Google is taking all the money out of the software business with Android and Google Docs, and Apple is well diversified in Hardware, Software, and Web Services. Hardware fiasco's like the Xbox 360, give Microsoft little credibility in transforming itself into a multi-faceted company like Apple.It's gonna be painful watching M$ nose-dive but it WILL happen. Nothing lasts forever.[/citation]
Apple posted a higher revenue but smaller profit wich is more important.

You call the xbox360 a failure, could you please tell me what you call the ps3, a disaster? Microsoft is making money with the xbox360, games and xbox live.

 

[sudeshc]

Use the money to give us better softwares and hardwares