Microsoft is the largest, most profitable software company in the world but where do they make their money?
Silicon Alley Insider has posted a "Chart of the Day" which illustrates that Microsoft's profits "are still being generated by the same engines that have driven Microsoft for years: Office, Windows, and its server division. (Meanwhile, its entertainment and devices division is only recently profitable again, and its online division is a money pit.)"
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WOXING - February 11, 2010 at 10:20am
Another apple fan...... Bravo
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Enrico - February 12, 2010 at 1:13am
OSX is actually based on the BSD core, not Linux.
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Zod - February 12, 2010 at 2:25am
OSX is UNIX based core. Quote the apple web site. "Mac OS X is the worlds most advanced operating system. Built on a rock-solid UNIX foundation and designed to be simple and intuitive, its what makes the Mac innovative, highly secure, compatible and easy to use. Quite simply, there is nothing else like it."
http://www.apple.com/au/macosx/what-is-macosx/
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Cyber Mafia - February 11, 2010 at 4:39am
Lets compare with Apple Software Sales and Micorsoft Sales.
Microsoft Office and Server Tools and Windows Impressive ...
I am not taking side of Microsoft but yeah hard to say they are the Name of the Game Microsoft.
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Zod - February 11, 2010 at 4:49am
Toyota sell plenty of Camrys world wide, more so than the Lexus, but it doesn't mean the Camry is by far the better car. Is it??
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Jay - February 11, 2010 at 12:01am
How long until they give up the Zune?
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poullos - February 11, 2010 at 6:27am
Big companies like MS may sell/provide something unprofitable because they MUST enter that market. They won't drop zune because it's unprofitable. They will be there since their competitors have a product in that market. They will only drop something id it's not profitable AND affects their image/name.
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